Currently I'm working on generating report using Microsoft Access. I have encounter problem where I'm unable to display full text in the text box. Control Source for this text box is from SQL Query.
This is example on what I'm getting right now:-
Appreciate any help or suggestion.
While viewing the form in Datasheet View (not Design View), double-click the edge of the column or drag to desired width. You must save the form for the formatting to stick. The width of datasheet form columns are not tied to the Width property in the property sheet. That's how it works in Access 2010 anyway.
You have to expand the Size of the text box that is all.
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I have a text box in MS Access Report which is set to unbound. I want to be able to collect an address in that field which can be any length based upon the customer address. I right clicked the box and set the size property to "To-Fit". However this did not do anything at all. The report needs to be printed which is why I cannot have a part of an address cut off because of the size of the text box.
Is there a way to make the size of the text box dynamic?
Thank you
Unfortunately there is no such feature for reports. For form controls you could use Horizontal Anchor but not for reports.
So you have two possibilities to let your adress not be cutted:
1: Let it grow vertically
To achieve this you would have to set the property Can grow of both, the textbox and the containing section to Yes.
If the text now doesn't fit in the textbox it will be resized in height.
2: Control it via VBA
You could use the format event to control the width of the textbox via VBA.
Here is an example of how to do this, but I didn't ever try it.
Unfortunately it is in mdb format, so you would need an older Microsoft Access Version (I expect Microsoft Access 2007 should be able to, 2003 for sure) to open it and grab the code.
http://www.lebans.com/autosize_textbox.htm
It uses Windows APIs and could be not so easy to get it running.
What it does (just the steps):
It first calculates the width of the text to be displayed in respect to the current font, fontsize and its properties.
Knowing this the control can be resized regarding.
I have been trying with no success lately to implement vertical text on an Access 2003 form im designing. There is a vertical option in the properties of every text box, but its not in the right direction. Text boxes marked with the attribute vertical = true start their text at the top side and then run downwards, exactly not as I want.
So my question is:
Is there native support for vertical textboxes other then the vertical attribute in Ms Access 2003
Failing #1, is there a way to shift text in text boxes by 180°.
Is #1 or #2 dependant on wether or not you have fixed text or text obtained from a data source.
Microsoft really messed this up by only implementing the one vertical direction, and not the other. :(
No
If you are desperate enough, you can try one of the solutions by the Great Wizard aka Stephen Lebans: http://lebans.com/rotatetext.htm or http://lebans.com/xrotatetext.htm
There are other external solutions (commercial), like Total Access Components.
You'll have to try it out, but in comparison to the 90° rotation, making a label caption dynamic or giving a text box a constant text is trivial.
I have a text field and I cannot drag my mouse and select the value/text within the text field in a vb.net application The cursor is stuck in the front of the text. However, just to check, I created another 'test' application containing a text field, and the mouse function is working fine. Mouse can be easily dragged to select the text field. I am completely lost here and any help in this subject matter would be really appreciated. I am wondering whether the fault lies with the application in itself.
Note: I have simply dragged and dropped a text-box from the toolbox of
visual studio and obtained those results. No special code written
Thanks in advance
You may need to check and set the TextBox's Enabled property to True
I'm sure this question has an easy answer, but I have a short timeline and need to get it resolved ASAP.
I'd like to have a content control drop down that when the user makes a selection, will update a legacy text box formField with the selected value.
I have no trouble selecting form fields and setting them using VBA code:
ActiveDocument.FormFields("MyFieldName").Result
But I'm having trouble selecting the value from the content control, and also figuring out how to execute the macro "onExit" like I can with legacy fields / drop downs.
Any suggestions?
Google "vba content control events".
For example, see the last post by Greg Maxey at how-to-catch-custom-control-events-with-vba-macro and towards the bottom of his page http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/content_controls.html
tldr; Hide the left UI component on the footer and the right component moves over to the center.
I have a .rdlc file that I'm modifying in Visual Studio 2010 (and, sometimes, in Notepad++, as well). This particular report has a footer with two text boxes. The left side textbox contains information that is only sometimes relevant. When it is not relevant, it gets hidden. The right side textbox contains a page number.
So long as the left textbox is visible, everything is fine. However, when I hide the left textbox, the resulting output has the right textbox shifted over to the middle.
I don't want my page number shifted to the middle. How do I prevent this? I tried handling it with a table stretched all across the footer, but the footer apparently won't allow a table to be contained.
Apparently, nobody has any better ideas, so I'm going to say that my comment above is the answer:
"I ended up just creating a duplicate textbox to the one I was hiding and showing it when the original was hidden. This new one just contains a bunch of spaces rather than text. Kludgy, but it worked."
:)
I had the same issue. I just solved the issue be creating another Textbox and changed the hidden formula to vice versa.
Existing Text box (Moving) : =IIF(Parameters!PM_ReportType.Value = "ShowDiscrepancy",TRUE,FALSE)
Duplicate Text box Hide Formula = =IIF(Parameters!PM_ReportType.Value = "ShowDiscrepancy",FALSE,TRUE)
TB Moved to Center
Solved
Adjust the Hide formula