HELP: Formatting Imbedded Field Boxes

[Guest]

I have a report that contains text boxes that hold bolt manually entered text
& field boxes.

EXAMPLE:
TEXT BOX 1: ="xxx" & [date]

I know by doing FORMAT([date], "dd-mmm-yy") I can change the output to
appear as 04-JUL-05, but is there a way to make it BOLD or ITALICS?

 

[Marshall Barton]

I have a report that contains text boxes that hold bolt manually entered text
& field boxes.

EXAMPLE:
TEXT BOX 1: ="xxx" & [date]

I know by doing FORMAT([date], "dd-mmm-yy") I can change the output to
appear as 04-JUL-05, but is there a way to make it BOLD or ITALICS?

A control only has one set of properties, so it's easy to
make its entire contents look any way you want. However,
there is no way to make part of the control's value look
different from another part.

If it is really important for the "xxx" to look different
from the date, you will need to use a different kind of
control that's far more complicated to use than a text box.
The usual thing is an RTF ActiveX control, which can add all
kinds of additional issues to your application relating to
licensing and installation. For a good and free RTF
control, see www.lebans,com