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Dynamic Page Margins
Hello,
I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:54:33 -0700, Vel wrote:
Hello, I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. You can use the PrtMip property to change margins, etc. of a report. But you must open the report in Design View (you can use code) to do so. Look up the PrtMip property in VBA help. The second example show how to change margins. -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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Vel wrote:
I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Form? You're not trying to print a form are you?? Reports (and form) objects in A2002 and later have a Printer Property. The returned object has many properties including the four margins. See Help for details. -- Marsh MVP [MS Access] |
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Alright, I managed to get the margins to change dynamically like I wanted,
but I still have a minor problem. How do I close the design view using code. I'm sure it's a simple matter, but I've never had to have anything open in design view for user functionality before so it's never come up. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Thanks Again "Vel" wrote: Hello, I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:23:03 -0700, Vel. wrote:
Alright, I managed to get the margins to change dynamically like I wanted, but I still have a minor problem. How do I close the design view using code. I'm sure it's a simple matter, but I've never had to have anything open in design view for user functionality before so it's never come up. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Thanks Again "Vel" wrote: Hello, I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Not so. DoCmd.Close has arguments. It will close whatever you tell it to. Just close the report, and save as acSaveYes to avoid a prompt. DoCmd.Close acReport, "ReportName", acSaveYes -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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What event should I put that code in? Here's how I have it set up. Upon
clicking the 'print' button on my form. 1 The form becomes invisible (allowing the fields on the form to still be used as parameters to send to various bits of the report) 2 The report opens in design view and the margins are modified. 3 The report opens in print preview mode to allow the user to check the data prior to printing. 4 When the report is printed a dialog box pops up asking if it printed correctly (if so then some fields in the table are updated, if not they are not). 5 When the report closes the original form reopens. --The report is still open in design view in the background.-- Vel. p.s. I assume I want to do: docmd.Close, acReport, stName, acSaveNo if I want to preserve the default margins, where stName is the name of the open report. I just don't know where to place that line of code. It won't let me put it in the report's OnClose event, and it didn't seem to fire on the form's OnActivate. "fredg" wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:23:03 -0700, Vel. wrote: Alright, I managed to get the margins to change dynamically like I wanted, but I still have a minor problem. How do I close the design view using code. I'm sure it's a simple matter, but I've never had to have anything open in design view for user functionality before so it's never come up. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Thanks Again "Vel" wrote: Hello, I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Not so. DoCmd.Close has arguments. It will close whatever you tell it to. Just close the report, and save as acSaveYes to avoid a prompt. DoCmd.Close acReport, "ReportName", acSaveYes -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:23:02 -0700, Vel. wrote:
What event should I put that code in? Here's how I have it set up. Upon clicking the 'print' button on my form. 1 The form becomes invisible (allowing the fields on the form to still be used as parameters to send to various bits of the report) 2 The report opens in design view and the margins are modified. 3 The report opens in print preview mode to allow the user to check the data prior to printing. 4 When the report is printed a dialog box pops up asking if it printed correctly (if so then some fields in the table are updated, if not they are not). 5 When the report closes the original form reopens. --The report is still open in design view in the background.-- Vel. p.s. I assume I want to do: docmd.Close, acReport, stName, acSaveNo if I want to preserve the default margins, where stName is the name of the open report. I just don't know where to place that line of code. It won't let me put it in the report's OnClose event, and it didn't seem to fire on the form's OnActivate. "fredg" wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:23:03 -0700, Vel. wrote: Alright, I managed to get the margins to change dynamically like I wanted, but I still have a minor problem. How do I close the design view using code. I'm sure it's a simple matter, but I've never had to have anything open in design view for user functionality before so it's never come up. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Thanks Again "Vel" wrote: Hello, I have a report which must print out on a paper form. However, occasionally the forms are cut just a bit differently, causing me to need to 'nudge' the text a hair to the right, left, up, or down. I would like to be able to print an alignment of the report and then, if necessary, enter into a dialog box or a form a number of points, positive or negative, to add or subtract from the default margins. Is there a property on the form which can be dynamically altered to do this? Thanks, Vel. The Docmd.Close command just closes the form open in preview mode, not design view, so... Not so. DoCmd.Close has arguments. It will close whatever you tell it to. Just close the report, and save as acSaveYes to avoid a prompt. DoCmd.Close acReport, "ReportName", acSaveYes -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. 1 The form becomes invisible (allowing the fields on the form to still be used as parameters to send to various bits of the report) 2 The report opens in design view and the margins are modified. 3 The report opens in print preview mode to allow the user to check the data prior to printing. 4 When the report is printed a dialog box pops up asking if it printed correctly (if so then some fields in the table are updated, if not they are not). 5 When the report closes the original form reopens. --The report is still open in design view in the background.-- 1) The first thing you need to do is open the report in design view. 2) Make the setup changes you want. 3) Close the report and save the changes. 4) Open the report, this time in preview. 5) Hide the form 6) When the report is printed a dialog box pops up asking if it printed correctly (if so then some fields in the table are updated, if not they are not). 7) Close the report. 8) Close the form (or make it visible again) Item # 1 to 5 is done from the Form button's Click event you are using to open the report. DoCmd.OpenReport "ReportName", acViewDesign, , , acHidden ' Make your report changes here DoCmd.Close acReport, "ReportName", acSaveYes DoCmd.OpenReport "ReportName", acViewPreview Me.Visible = False Item # 6 is done by some event in the report or somewhere else. I have no idea how you are doing this or what. Item # 7 is done automatically when you print the report, or manually, if you preview the report, by clicking the 'Close' toolbutton on the Print Preview tool bar. Item #8 should be done in the Report's Close event. DoCmd.Close acForm, "FormName" Or.. instead of closing the form if you wish to make it visible again, use: forms!FormName.Visible = True -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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