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From: Isis on 27 Jun 2008 09:13
I have a problem with a Text Box on a report - I want to paste in some text
- about 2500 characters including spaces - I get an error message about the
text being too long to be edited.

Is there a limit to how long the text is - even if the box is big enough to
hold it ?

Any way around this - the text box is holding the general body text of a
letter.

On a second point is there a way to have boldening, underlining etc on a\
word by word basis ?

Thanks
From: Wayne-I-M on 27 Jun 2008 10:07
Create a new table - one field only (memo format)
Paste the text into that.
Base the report control on that
You could (the make the report fit better) add a sub report and set the can
grow/shrink to Yes.

I don't think you can apply bold / font / etc inside a report control

Oh - yes the pasted text (when viewed first time in the report) will look a
mess. Cteate a form from the one field table - adujst the text to how you
want it save then delete the form - there are other ways to set the formats
but this is the simplest

--
Wayne
Manchester, England.



"Isis" wrote:

> I have a problem with a Text Box on a report - I want to paste in some text
> - about 2500 characters including spaces - I get an error message about the
> text being too long to be edited.
>
> Is there a limit to how long the text is - even if the box is big enough to
> hold it ?
>
> Any way around this - the text box is holding the general body text of a
> letter.
>
> On a second point is there a way to have boldening, underlining etc on a\
> word by word basis ?
>
> Thanks
>
From: Klatuu on 27 Jun 2008 10:24
Goto Lebans.com
He has some great formatting tools there.
IMHO, Paste in Access is a dirty word. Your text should be in a memo field
in a table you can include in your report's recordset.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP


"Isis" wrote:

> I have a problem with a Text Box on a report - I want to paste in some text
> - about 2500 characters including spaces - I get an error message about the
> text being too long to be edited.
>
> Is there a limit to how long the text is - even if the box is big enough to
> hold it ?
>
> Any way around this - the text box is holding the general body text of a
> letter.
>
> On a second point is there a way to have boldening, underlining etc on a\
> word by word basis ?
>
> Thanks
>
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