vertical alignment of text

[rico]

I have a text box that is bound to a field and a text box
that is not bound to a field in a report. i want to make
them top align (verticle alignment). i right-clicked on
the text boxes and went to the align menu on the cascade
window but there are greyed out! does anyone know how to
vertically align text?? why of all the things that access
can do can it not do this simple task??

 

[Rick Brandt]

I have a text box that is bound to a field and a text box
that is not bound to a field in a report. i want to make
them top align (verticle alignment). i right-clicked on
the text boxes and went to the align menu on the cascade
window but there are greyed out! does anyone know how to
vertically align text?? why of all the things that access
can do can it not do this simple task??

You went to a menu choice for aligning "windows" not TextBoxes. What you
need is...

Format - Align - Top

....making sure that you have both TextBoxes selected beforehand.

 

[Guest]

the format option on the top of the toolbar is the same
thing as right clicking on the text box.

the problem is that it is greyed out; on both right-
clicking and the format menu.

rico

 

[Rick Brandt]

the format option on the top of the toolbar is the same
thing as right clicking on the text box.

the problem is that it is greyed out; on both right-
clicking and the format menu.

The only time I have ever seen the alignment options grayed out is when you
don't have more than one control currently selected.

 

[Marshall Barton]

I have a text box that is bound to a field and a text box
that is not bound to a field in a report. i want to make
them top align (verticle alignment). i right-clicked on
the text boxes and went to the align menu on the cascade
window but there are greyed out! does anyone know how to
vertically align text?? why of all the things that access
can do can it not do this simple task??

Aside from using the wrong menu, why don't you just set all
the text box's TOP property to the appropriate value? You
could Copy/Paste the Top property from one to the other or
just select both text boxes and type the desired position to
set them both at once.

Also, if you set the Snap to Grid option, you can drag each
text box to approximately where you want it and it will
automatically align to the grid.