showing cell contents

[ifoundgoldbug]

Greetings

Is there a setting that can be used to show the entire contents of a
cell without having to expand the column?

thank you for your time

Gold Bug

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Greetings

Is there a setting that can be used to show the entire contents of a
cell without having to expand the column?

thank you for your time

Gold Bug

In a form, query report ???

 

[Rick B]

A "cell" is something used in Excel. Access does not have cells. What
exactly are you trying to do? Are you doing this in a form or report? How
big is the data? What type of field are we talking about?

 

[ifoundgoldbug]

i am in form (datasheet view) that ius populated from a query and i
have some window size restraints and instead of changing the width of
the columns in the datasheet view is it possible to have the particular
record of a fields contents appear in a bubble.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

As others have indicated, the term 'cell' doesn't really mean anything in an
Access context. However, in tables, queries, and forms, you can open a
'Zoom' dialog box with an expanded view of the data in a field or control by
holding the Shift key while pressing the F2 key.

 

[ti976]

Not in datasheet view.
If you switch to form view and use the tooltip property paired vwith a
mouse over event/timer event that would be possible.

 

[Pieter Wijnen]

www.lebans.com has code to show tooltips in ds view, Knowing his code it
will be able to achieve your goal
it would be fairly simple to link some kind of popup to the mousedown event
(right-click). Pressing shift+F2 in a Control will bring up the zoom box
(Access.DoCmd.RunCommand Access.acCmdZoomBox does the same in code)

Pieter