formatting text field with different formats

[Janette]

Hi

I have a text field on a report that has a caption value of eg "A very quick
" + Trim[colour] + " fox jumped over ...." ie a combination of static text
and a database value. I want to be able to display say the database value in
bold but the rest of the text normally. Is this possible. It seems that you
can only apply a font weighting to all the text in a text field instead of
only select pieces. I could separate the text into 3 separate text fields
but then the flow of the text isn't normal as the length of the database
field colour is variable.

Can anyone suggest a way of mixing bold and not bold text in the one text
field?

Thanks
Janette

 

[fredg]

Hi

I have a text field on a report that has a caption value of eg "A very quick
" + Trim[colour] + " fox jumped over ...." ie a combination of static text
and a database value. I want to be able to display say the database value in
bold but the rest of the text normally. Is this possible. It seems that you
can only apply a font weighting to all the text in a text field instead of
only select pieces. I could separate the text into 3 separate text fields
but then the flow of the text isn't normal as the length of the database
field colour is variable.

Can anyone suggest a way of mixing bold and not bold text in the one text
field?

Thanks
Janette

This is not do-able using Access as shipped.

You can install a RichTextFormat contrrol,
or see if the MixedBold report method will work for you.

Both at http://www.lebans.com

 

[Janette]

Thanks Fred for the quick response.

Hi

I have a text field on a report that has a caption value of eg "A very quick
" + Trim[colour] + " fox jumped over ...." ie a combination of static text
and a database value. I want to be able to display say the database value in
bold but the rest of the text normally. Is this possible. It seems that you
can only apply a font weighting to all the text in a text field instead of
only select pieces. I could separate the text into 3 separate text fields
but then the flow of the text isn't normal as the length of the database
field colour is variable.

Can anyone suggest a way of mixing bold and not bold text in the one text
field?

Thanks
Janette

This is not do-able using Access as shipped.

You can install a RichTextFormat contrrol,
or see if the MixedBold report method will work for you.

Both at http://www.lebans.com