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Old August 20th, 2009, 10:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
Rod
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I'm working on a bibliography and need to italicize the title of the book in
the text string. I want the format to be:

Last name, First name, Title [italicized], Publisher, Year, # of pages.

There must be a way of doing this in Access 2007. Any ideas?

Rod
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Old August 20th, 2009, 11:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
Bruce Meneghin
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If the biblio listing is part of a report, you can have each of the elements
(last name, first name, title) be a separate field in the report detail.
Each can then be formatted separately.

"Rod" wrote:

I'm working on a bibliography and need to italicize the title of the book in
the text string. I want the format to be:

Last name, First name, Title [italicized], Publisher, Year, # of pages.

There must be a way of doing this in Access 2007. Any ideas?

Rod

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Old August 21st, 2009, 01:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
Rod
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Default Format part of a text string

Thanks for the suggestion. I am storing the information in separate fields.
But I want to string the fields together in a bibliography format. As I
mentioned, I need to have the title italicized. I researched the format
function, but it doesn't appear that this is an option.

I guess my question is how to create a text string where one of the fields
can be formatted separate from the other ones. This seems like such an
obvious need, I must just be missing something!

"Bruce Meneghin" wrote:

If the biblio listing is part of a report, you can have each of the elements
(last name, first name, title) be a separate field in the report detail.
Each can then be formatted separately.

"Rod" wrote:

I'm working on a bibliography and need to italicize the title of the book in
the text string. I want the format to be:

Last name, First name, Title [italicized], Publisher, Year, # of pages.

There must be a way of doing this in Access 2007. Any ideas?

Rod

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Old August 21st, 2009, 02:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
John Spencer
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Default Format part of a text string

I don't know if there is a solution, but I would check out
www.Lebans.com

Stephen has done a lot of things with reports that I am amazed about. So
browse his site and see if there is something there.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Rod wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I am storing the information in separate fields.
But I want to string the fields together in a bibliography format. As I
mentioned, I need to have the title italicized. I researched the format
function, but it doesn't appear that this is an option.

I guess my question is how to create a text string where one of the fields
can be formatted separate from the other ones. This seems like such an
obvious need, I must just be missing something!

 




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