Can Grow Property Not Working 1

[FontanaS]

Hello,

I Have A Text Box On A Form. I Set The Property Can Grow To "YES". When I Go To View The Data, The Text Box Does Not Grow.

Is There Something Else I Need To Check?

THANKS!

 

[THWatson]

FontanaS
It works easily in a report, but in a form...well, there may be a work-around, but I'm not sure.

If you search Help for the Can Grow property, it mentions that, in a form, the control can only grow vertically (not horizontally) and then only if it has room above the control below it.

I just tried it myself. I set a control to Can Grow. On the screen, when there was more data than the control would hold, I saw no difference. But when I printed the form, the control had actually expanded vertically

I used a text box and plugged in "George Anderson."
When the form printed it came out like this...
Geor
ge
And
erso
n

Not pretty.

As I say, maybe there's a work-around.

Tom

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

Hi,
CanShrink & CanGrow works only at the time of print or Print Preview.
However you can make the textbox to grow to show all the text in that contol with code.
Check the link

http://www.lebans.com/cangrow.htm

Regards

Zameer Abdulla

http://www.geocities.com/zameerabd/

http://www.mtkhoory.com

 

[THWatson]

Zameer
An excellent find! Very interesting! Worth a star!

Tom

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

Thanks for the star


Zameer Abdulla

http://www.geocities.com/zameerabd/

http://www.mtkhoory.com