How to Stop increasing the size of textbox when another textbox increase its size on report - vba

I am working with Access Report and I have multiple fields in report.
3 of the field (Textbox) is Richtext (Memo field). It handles more than 255 characaters. if the textbox data increase it also increase the hight of the textbox. This behaviour is desireable and it works.
One of field contain the conditional formatting which makes the backcolor 'orange' or 'Red' based on condition.
The Problem it also increase the height of the textbox same as other field.
How can I disable the increasing of the height for that particular textbox?


I remove the field from the stacked Layout and now It is not increasing its size.
post anyother suggestion if its possible without removing the layout.

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Setting field of Access table using VBA from form

I'm trying to set a value of a field from a subroutine which I'm calling from an event handler. I'm simply doing width = 5
However, the field value isn't changed. However I can do height = 5 and the field value is set as expected. The field value for width remains unchanged at 12186.
I've tried changing the field name to image_width to no avail.
The form has neither controls height nor width.
What am I doing wrong / why is this one field not changing. I've tried deleting the field and recreating, and I don't see anything on this field that limits the setting of data.

Every form has an inbuilt property .Width so you can't use that for a field name.
A form doesn't have .Height, since this is a property of the form sections.
image_width shold work, though. Are you sure you edited all relevant settings?
i.e. Table field name, form field Name, form field Controlsource, VBA code?

Access Report with dynamically changing text box size

Is it possible to have a report with flexible text width and height? I sometimes have two words in this text and some times hundreds. I want to have small text for the first and big text for the second. How do I do that?

I would advise you to set a your text box size to what you think is optimum and use the CanShrink and CanGrow properties (tap the text box and then open the properties windows and you can find them there).
The CanGrow property indicates whether the size of the text box can increase vertically according to its content. Similarly, CanShrink decreases the height of the text box according to its content. Here is a link for better understanding these two properties.

Use the Detail_Format event.
It fires before each line, and you can change the formatting based on the length of the text.
Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
If Len(Field1) < 10 Then
txtField1.FontSize = 18
Else
txtField1.FontSize = 12
End If
End Sub

Items should be arrange into three columns in CheckedListBox or listview or listbox

I have used CheckedListBox control in vb.net application.
I have several items as follow, item 1, item 2, item 3........item 100.
Now, i want all these items to arrange into three columns and then appear verticle scrollbar.
But, in CheckedListBox, it appears as horizontally. i want it to appear horizontally for just three columns and then vertical scroll should enable.
Can you please suggest if possible in CheckedListBox control or any other control and if possible then how i would have to set its property to achieve this.

I don't think you can do that in a CheckedListBox....
You could create a FlowLayoutPanel, with a fixed width and add AutoScroll = True.
Then add a number of CheckBox controls to it.
You could have problems regarding column alignment and margins. If that's the case, you can set the checkbox Autosize = False and make them a little larger (in order to contain the text)
Or you can reduce the Height of the checkboxes to reduce spaces (is this what you want?)
eg. Height = 15

Use repeat direction =horizontal and repeat column =3 for checkbox list

Change TextBox font size keeping textBox size (Height)

How can I change the font size of a TextBox but keep the TextBox height?
At the moment each time I try to change the font size the TextBox height re-sizes based on the font size, I sort of got it to work by changing the TextBox to multiline but only want a single line Textbox.

The textbox control has a hidden AutoSize property which can be disabled
textBox1.AutoSize = False
textBox1.Height = 50
which I added to foo_load, you do end up with a large box and small font and looks a little odd due to textbox not having any padding property but this can be rectified by putting a panel behind it and positioning the textbox just inside.

In WinForms you can set the MinimumSize and/or the MaximumSize properties of the TextBox in order to override the automatic adjustment of the TextBox height, when the font height changes.
Note that setting the minimum and maximum size does not change the TextBox size immediately. But when you change the width of the TextBox in the form designer, its height will be changed to be within the specified limits.

How to increase the size of a text box base on the text content

I have a report that I need to increase the size of the textbox base on the length of the text. There some formula to calculate the resulting lenght size?

You can either go for a Label with the AutoSize property set to True. Or if you want to stick to TextBox, you can make use of MeasureString method and get the width of the text from there. Use that width to set the width of TextBox.