How do I align my font what the icon doesnt work

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That should be inactive, or gray I think you call it. How do I make it active
or is there another way to align the font in the database?
 
Where are you trying to align text? You can't, for instance, do any
alignment in tables or queries: only in forms or reports.
 
If you want to align text WITHIN a textbox (or other control), you do it via
the properties window. You click on the control (not the label, and not the
text inside the control) and look in the "format" tab of the properties
window near the bottom below all the "font" listings for "align". (The
properties window can be viewed, if it's not already visible, by hitting f4,
or via the menu (view| properties).

Above that listing in the properties window is where you change the font
size, color, weight, etc, as well as the background color and you can add
some special formatting like "etched" etc.

If you click the control and then look where you were looking (format |
align), those "align" controls will move the actual text (or other control)
boxes and line them up (or you can size them, etc).

Hope that helps,
CW
 
Thank you for your replies

I'm trying to align the font in the fields of the database. You can do that
in the Microsoft works data base, I thought this thing was supposed to be
better

I don't have any idea what or where the properties window is. I did find
that thing where you can change the font and its size etc but nothing about
alignment
 
I'm trying to align the font in the fields of the database. You can do that
in the Microsoft works data base, I thought this thing was supposed to be
better
Click to expand...

Works and Access are two VERY DIFFERENT PROGRAMS.

You cannot see an Access "database". It's a container for multiple
Tables, Queries, Forms, Reports, and other objects.

What you're probably looking at is an Access Table. Tables are
designed for data *storage* - not for printing, and not for onscreen
display. As such they have very limited formatting capabilities.

If you want to see the data in your table laid out on the screen with
fields centered in their boxes, use a Form. If you want the same thing
on paper, use a Report. Both forms and reports have "properties" (and
so do textboxes on both), and you have great flexibility in formatting
them.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
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