Font control

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Derek Brown

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to give a users a feature to alter the font of a
report in an MDE? I would love to be able to choose the font from the
standard windows select font box or toolbar but don't know if I am asking
for trouble!
 
Derek,
If the app is only for your use...
It should be possible to develop a dialog form that allows a user to
pick a font style for the report, and have the report's OnFormat event
reference those settings just before printing.

But, if this app will be used by others, (and the mde format suggests
that) I would not to bother with it. Fancy fonts don't make a good report,
good design does.
Not all PCs have the same fonts installed, and what with variable scale
and size even within a set font size, it would be an easy matter to overrun
field widths or heights, and can grow/shrink sizes... etc etc.
 
Thanks Al

The font is only for a note field used to quickly produce letters so font
size should not be a problem unless the user goes berserk.

Are there any plans for Access to have font bold and underline type features
for note fields I wonder?
 
Thanks Al

The question was customer originater and I didn't want to offer a flat "No"
to the request for user fonts.
 
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