Text running off the right hand side of boxes

[SueBK]

I'm having issues with text running off the right hand side of field boxes. Everything looks fine in report view and layout view, but in print view often the last three or four letters will be truncated.
I've been mucking around with margins and padding (not really understanding which is what), and I've found I've had to set the right margin to greater than 0.5cm (which is huge in Access design) to ensure all my text is printed.
Can anyone explain why this happening?

 

[llkhoutx]

Design you data controls to fit your report. It doesn't work, the other way around.

 

[SueBK]

Frankly, that strikes me as a rather ridiculous limitation. (Although being Microsoft it wouldn't be at all surprising.)
My text field is 255 characters; I will most likely need all 255 characters at some point. My text box on the report supposedly allows for text wrapping. It's silly to think that every single one of my text fields has to be be 255 characters long on my report because Access can't wrap text properly.

 

[khodr]

check your printer page setup to meet the report and also maybe you can reduce the printing area by using Scale option in your printer dialog box.

 

[llkhoutx]

Do you have "Can Grow / Can Shrink" properties of text boxes set to "Yes?"

 

[SueBK]

The issue is not a page setup issue. Attached two screen dumps - "A" is showing print preview mode; "2" is showing "layout view". As you can see, in layout view, the text wraps nicely, just like you would expect it to. Swapping to print previewing (and printing) the text just doesn't wrap in the box.
As I mentioned, I've tried changing margins and/or padding. The text moves around in the layout view, but continues to run off the edge in print preview.

 

[SueBK]

All text boxes have can grow/shrink set to yes.

 

[JHB]

Are you printing out through a Cisco-server or on local printer?
I had a problem once with a report printing out through a Cisco-server, the problem was never solved, but the user got a local printer.
Try choosing another printer, if it is possible for you.

 

[khodr]

This problem is not related to the printer as far as the text is not being cut off the margins, did you try to change the font type? Try the. Times new roman or some other similiar font

 

[SueBK]

Bingo. Changed the font to TNR and no more issues. <sigh> Now, to reformat all my reports.

 

[khodr]

Maybe it will be good if we think about a code to set the report text boxes font without changing it from the properties of the text box, I will look for that I have never tried it before but I think it's a good idea to look for