garvic82 wrote:

I have tried it that way, but it just changes all of the text in the memo
box
and not just what was selected. And I don't see an option to change this
to
Rich Text in the Data Tab of this field property. I can only change size,
color, etc.

Are you using Access 2007 with the AccDB file format? You need that to use
Rich Text (actually HTML) in Access. For older versions you woudl have to
use a third party ActiveX control.

In either case format changes DO change what is stored in the database
because it adds the formatting tags to the data.