RTF control data input error

[bodmin]

I have an active-X RTF control on an Access form, I am trying to use this control to enter an XSL document into the table that is then called by the backend system to transform a particular XML message.

The problem I have is that whenever I enter the XSL document into the RTF control and then navigate the form away in order to save the record, the XSL document that is stored in the table has several lines of format information at the start. Like in the example below:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang2057......}

I am unable to edit the record directly in table view as the text is too long to be edited.

I am unsure whether this is due to the settings of the RTF control or whether it is to do with the where the input text has been copied from.

anybody got any ideas?

 

[PHV]

Something confuse me:
why using a RTF control to manage something NOT rtf ?
Have you tried to play with a memo field ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[bodmin]

Im not sure why an RTF control has been used, this is a database that I have only just taken over support of and the original developer is currently away.

Therefore I am tentative when it comes to making any major changes before I have at least consulted him for the reason that this was originally built like this.

I was just wondering whether it was an obvious issue with the properties of the rtf control?