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Report Can Grow not aligned horizontally
I have a report where I have 1 row of text, memo, number, and date fields.
The memo field can contain up to 4-5 lines of wrapped text. I have set all teh rows to "can grow". However, on my report, the conditional formatting doesn't grow. For instance, the fill (which I have set to a gray color) in the memo field is about 3 lines deep when there is a lot of text in the memo field, but the text and number fields associated with that record are actually only 1 line. This essentially looks like a mess, small gray filled boxes for the text fields and a large gray filled box for the memo field. I just want simple rows that have the same height (they actually have the same height per se, but the fill of the record doesn't match up). Using columnar layout in access 2010 solves the problem, but then the database is not able to be open in 2007, which renders it essentially useless. Any thoughts? |
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Report Can Grow not aligned horizontally
Viking wrote:
I have a report where I have 1 row of text, memo, number, and date fields. The memo field can contain up to 4-5 lines of wrapped text. I have set all teh rows to "can grow". However, on my report, the conditional formatting doesn't grow. For instance, the fill (which I have set to a gray color) in the memo field is about 3 lines deep when there is a lot of text in the memo field, but the text and number fields associated with that record are actually only 1 line. This essentially looks like a mess, small gray filled boxes for the text fields and a large gray filled box for the memo field. I just want simple rows that have the same height (they actually have the same height per se, but the fill of the record doesn't match up). Using columnar layout in access 2010 solves the problem, but then the database is not able to be open in 2007, which renders it essentially useless. I don't know what A2010 can do about that, but I have never seen the growth of one text box affect the Height of any other text box. What I have always done is use the section's Format event to precalculate the eventual height of the text box that will grow (see TextHeightWidth at www.lebans.com). Then set the Height of the other text boxes to the calculated height. That is necessary because the final height of the growing text box is not available until the Print event, but the Print event is too late to change the size/position of controls. -- Marsh MVP [MS Access] |
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Report Can Grow not aligned horizontally
If the text boxes all have their background set, I'm not sure why you don't
set the background of the detail section. However if you want to set the background of one or more controls in the report section, you can set the Tag property of these controls to "Border". Then add this code to the On Print event of the section: Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer) Dim intMaxHeight As Integer Dim ctl As Control Dim lngHilite As Long lngHilite = 10092543 'pale yellow 'Find highest control in Detail section _ that has a tag property of "Border" For Each ctl In Me.Section(0).Controls If ctl.Tag = "Border" Then If ctl.Height intMaxHeight Then intMaxHeight = ctl.Height End If End If Next 'Draw a box around each control in Detail _ that has a tag property of "Border" For Each ctl In Me.Section(0).Controls If ctl.Tag = "Border" Then 'make the background pale yellow Me.Line (ctl.Left, ctl.Top)- _ Step(ctl.Width, intMaxHeight), lngHilite, BF Me.Line (ctl.Left, ctl.Top)- _ Step(ctl.Width, intMaxHeight), vbBlack, B End If Next End Sub -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "Marshall Barton" wrote: Viking wrote: I have a report where I have 1 row of text, memo, number, and date fields. The memo field can contain up to 4-5 lines of wrapped text. I have set all teh rows to "can grow". However, on my report, the conditional formatting doesn't grow. For instance, the fill (which I have set to a gray color) in the memo field is about 3 lines deep when there is a lot of text in the memo field, but the text and number fields associated with that record are actually only 1 line. This essentially looks like a mess, small gray filled boxes for the text fields and a large gray filled box for the memo field. I just want simple rows that have the same height (they actually have the same height per se, but the fill of the record doesn't match up). Using columnar layout in access 2010 solves the problem, but then the database is not able to be open in 2007, which renders it essentially useless. I don't know what A2010 can do about that, but I have never seen the growth of one text box affect the Height of any other text box. What I have always done is use the section's Format event to precalculate the eventual height of the text box that will grow (see TextHeightWidth at www.lebans.com). Then set the Height of the other text boxes to the calculated height. That is necessary because the final height of the growing text box is not available until the Print event, but the Print event is too late to change the size/position of controls. -- Marsh MVP [MS Access] . |
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