How do I change the font of only a selection of text in Access?

[Guest]

I want to change the font (i.e., make it bold) of only a couple of words, or
of only one box...how can I do that?
Even if I try to highlight a selection of words, Access applies the font
changes to the whole document!

Thanks,
Eliam

 

[Guest]

Hi Eliam
You can do that in form when you display the data.
Go to the form and select the field box for which you want to highlight the
font and chang the property font weight to Bold.
this will show all the data in that field only bold. Terst of the text box
will be normal.

 

[John Vinson]

I want to change the font (i.e., make it bold) of only a couple of words, or
of only one box...how can I do that?
Even if I try to highlight a selection of words, Access applies the font
changes to the whole document!

You can do this, now, in Access2007 (so I understand, haven't
installed it myself) - but not in prior versions of Access. The only
way to do so is to obtain a "Rich Text Format" control and add it to
your form. Note that the text will be stored in the table with large
quantities of formatting codes, which will both make the database
bloat faster and may interfere with searching.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Guest]

So in Access 2003 you can't make only a part of the text in a table or form
bold??

How is that possible?

Eliam

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

How is it possible? It probably wasn't considered important for a database
application.

Take a look at how big a Word document is vs. the same words in a text file.
That's at least partly due to the overhead of supporting rich formatting.

As John pointed out, you've always had the option of using an RTF control,
and storing your data with the RTF format symbols. While Access 2007
introduces a more native way of doing it, it's still going to use HTML under
the covers, thus requiring you to take more space to store the same
information.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

 

[Guest]

Hi Eliam,

Changing the font of a box is not so hard to do. Within the designmode of
your form you can select the properties of that box and alter the font for
just that box only.

greetings
Harry