TAB Character in a Report

[Guest]

Is there any way to insert the equivalent of a TAB in a report text box? I
tried "vbTab", but that's apparently not it.

I'm trying to create what is essentially "form letter" in an Access report,
where all the changable fields come from the queries. I can concatenate all
the text without problems, and I can programmatically start new paragraphs
with "vbCRLF". But what I need is an equivalent of a "numbered list", where
the first line of each paragraph is indented by the same amount.

And lacking an automatic numbering function, I can type my own numbers - but
trying to line things up with spaces, with a proportional font, is an
exercise in frustration, doomed to failure.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Well, you can insert a tab, but Access won't render it correctly.

Sorry, but your options are using a non-proportional font, or using an RTF
control (which is even more work)

 

[Guest]

I was afraid that that's what you were going to say. Access is a great
program, and sometimes the hardest things to do are very simple - but
sometimes simple thiings are very difficult.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Well, in all fairness, Access is a database, not a word processor. Numbered
lists aren't really part of database theory.... <g>