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susan gardner
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I have a report in an Access file that someone created for me. I have
NO real experience in Access, it was all done for me, and now I want
to do some editing.
What I have is a letter with "letter head" at the top (text box 1.) This text is centered.
The date (text box 2),then body of the letter follows in the main
larger text box 3. This text is left justified.
When our Principals change I need to change the first text box sometimes
this means there are more or less lines in this box. I have done this successfully, although I'm not sure if it was "correctly" I have replaced names, and made the box smaller to get it to wrap so there is the correct amount of text (Name) on a line. I'm not sure what I would do if I had a line that I don't want to wrap that is longer than the line I do want to wrap. but that is working for now.
The first thing I'm trying to do is put the date in the third larger
text box instead of a seperate box. To do this I figured I needed to
add a blank line before the first paragraph of the 3rd text box, then
enter the current date code. I tried to copy and paste the code from
its current seperate box and paste it into the third box, but then the
report only shows the code/no date and the following paragraph isn't
aligned properly since the only way I could figure to move it down was
with spaces. I tried ctrl/enter, and that just gave me some pop up
dialog box with some tools in it that I don't know what to do with.
The second thing I wanted to do is bold only part of the text in the
large/3rd text box.
Some how I ended up with some blank space between 2 paragraphs so what
I did to get the bolded text paragraph I want is add another text
box, bold it and place it on top of the existing larger text box, but
I always have to move the 2 boxes (3 if you count the date) when I
need to shift the text up or down for any adjustments I do in the
first box. Is there a way to only bold one paragraph of a larger text
box?
I have tried different things, and I have searched "help" as they like to call it, but it is NOT!
I hope this is clear.
TIA
Susan G
P.S. I have tried different things, and I have searched "help" as they like to call it, but it is NOT!
NO real experience in Access, it was all done for me, and now I want
to do some editing.
What I have is a letter with "letter head" at the top (text box 1.) This text is centered.
The date (text box 2),then body of the letter follows in the main
larger text box 3. This text is left justified.
When our Principals change I need to change the first text box sometimes
this means there are more or less lines in this box. I have done this successfully, although I'm not sure if it was "correctly" I have replaced names, and made the box smaller to get it to wrap so there is the correct amount of text (Name) on a line. I'm not sure what I would do if I had a line that I don't want to wrap that is longer than the line I do want to wrap. but that is working for now.
The first thing I'm trying to do is put the date in the third larger
text box instead of a seperate box. To do this I figured I needed to
add a blank line before the first paragraph of the 3rd text box, then
enter the current date code. I tried to copy and paste the code from
its current seperate box and paste it into the third box, but then the
report only shows the code/no date and the following paragraph isn't
aligned properly since the only way I could figure to move it down was
with spaces. I tried ctrl/enter, and that just gave me some pop up
dialog box with some tools in it that I don't know what to do with.
The second thing I wanted to do is bold only part of the text in the
large/3rd text box.
Some how I ended up with some blank space between 2 paragraphs so what
I did to get the bolded text paragraph I want is add another text
box, bold it and place it on top of the existing larger text box, but
I always have to move the 2 boxes (3 if you count the date) when I
need to shift the text up or down for any adjustments I do in the
first box. Is there a way to only bold one paragraph of a larger text
box?
I have tried different things, and I have searched "help" as they like to call it, but it is NOT!
I hope this is clear.
TIA
Susan G
P.S. I have tried different things, and I have searched "help" as they like to call it, but it is NOT!
