Recreating Govt Form 1

[ErikZ]

We use a lot of government forms here, and too many of them require the user to go get a typewriter and type in the blanks. I've started trying to convert them all to forms within Access, but I've already hit this problem. Access is very bad at text formatting!

My first paragraph that I'm transferring over contains: normal text, Bold text and Underlined text. Also the paragraph is justified so that the left and right side of the paragraph is a straight line! Right now I'm deleting any special text, creating a new box, and typing the text in there. But it's very difficult to align correctly.

Is there a better way? Surely someone else has had to do something like this?

Later
Erik Z

 

[ErikZ]

Well that was quick. In my frusteration I went to "Word" and typed in what I wanted, the way I wanted it to look. Then I tried to cut and paste it into the current text box. Instead it created some sort of "Word OLE" object.

I still can edit it in any fashion in Access, but when I double click on it, Word Pops up and allows me to work on it. So far it looks exactly the way I want it.

I ought to give myself a star for such a good answer.

Later
ErikZ

 

[MichaelRed]

I gave you one. It is an issue which I have faced - and always done it the first (hard?) way. I did make each of the 'lines' seperate textboxes, so alignment wasn't a real problem, however the 'justification' issue ALWAYS reared it's ugly head.



MichaelRed
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