Field Text Editor?

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Using FP-03 and connecting to an Access mdb backend.
I have a memo field in access that receives considerable text and the text
would look better if it could be bulleted, bolded, etc.

I've seen in the past web input fields that included a mini text editor for
input into that field and when the data was submitted, the formatting went
with it (in html I assume) (This would be found in an admin section of the
site on an editor/add page)

I have a site where only a few people make additions/edits to the data for
public viewing. I want to be able to format the text in the field, save it
to the Access backend memo type field, then when it is retrieved, see the
text formatted as was intended.

Is this going to require 3 weeks of web searching, trial and error, hair
pulling, etc to make this come to fruition?

P.S. Does one here perhaps no if there is an addin or something for MS
Access that allows for formatting of data in a memo field?

Thanks in advance
 
I haven't seen an addin for this. What I do is copy the text into an empty
web page, format it, and then copy it from there into the Access memo field.
If you're using the FrontPage DBRW to display the field, you need to
right-click on the field in Design View and select Column contains HTML.
 
Take a look at http://www.innovastudio.com/

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| Using FP-03 and connecting to an Access mdb backend.
| I have a memo field in access that receives considerable text and the text
| would look better if it could be bulleted, bolded, etc.
|
| I've seen in the past web input fields that included a mini text editor for
| input into that field and when the data was submitted, the formatting went
| with it (in html I assume) (This would be found in an admin section of the
| site on an editor/add page)
|
| I have a site where only a few people make additions/edits to the data for
| public viewing. I want to be able to format the text in the field, save it
| to the Access backend memo type field, then when it is retrieved, see the
| text formatted as was intended.
|
| Is this going to require 3 weeks of web searching, trial and error, hair
| pulling, etc to make this come to fruition?
|
| P.S. Does one here perhaps no if there is an addin or something for MS
| Access that allows for formatting of data in a memo field?
|
| Thanks in advance
 
You would need a third-party component or script to do this. You can do it
server-side, which can give more flexibility, or client-side. There's a free
text editor called FCKeditor that's very nice, though you may have to monkey
with it a bit as it's almost too flexible (lots of options for lots of
different technologies) sometimes.

Check out: http://www.fckeditor.net/

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
I've seen in the past web input fields that included a mini text editor for
input into that field and when the data was submitted, the formatting went
with it (in html I assume) (This would be found in an admin section of the
site on an editor/add page)
 
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