Freezing Lines

[orgelizer via AccessMonster.com]

I'm trying to design a report that has a list of items on the left margin
with horizontal lines between each item. I want the lines to be specifically
4 dots apart as viewed in Design View. That works with the default 8 point
font, but should I change to 9 point for easier reading, while there is no
obvious change in Design View, when I change view to see the report, the
lines have increased along with the type. Any way I change the fonts, the
lines follow. I want them to be fixed in one spot. So, how can I do that,
and why doesn't the change reflect in the Design View?

One sort of unrelated item. Is there a way to zoom the view when in Design
View? I looked using the normal method of clicking on View, but I didn't see
anything that appears to allow one to zoom the view.

Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.

Ken

 

[Rick Brandt]

I'm trying to design a report that has a list of items on the left
margin with horizontal lines between each item. I want the lines to
be specifically 4 dots apart as viewed in Design View. That works
with the default 8 point font, but should I change to 9 point for
easier reading, while there is no obvious change in Design View, when
I change view to see the report, the lines have increased along with
the type. Any way I change the fonts, the lines follow. I want them
to be fixed in one spot. So, how can I do that, and why doesn't the
change reflect in the Design View?

Sounds like you have CanGrow wnabled on the TextBoxes. Try turning that
off.

One sort of unrelated item. Is there a way to zoom the view when in
Design View? I looked using the normal method of clicking on View,
but I didn't see anything that appears to allow one to zoom the view.

Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.

There is no design view zoom other than the accessibility zoom provided by
Windows itself.

 

[orgelizer via AccessMonster.com]

I was going to write that I'd tried that, but I tried it again and verified
that you are correct. That now brings up another question. When Can Grow is
turned on, text will automatically wrap when it gets to the end of the
designated field size, but it doesn't appear to when Can Grow is turned off.
Is there a way to get word wrap while having Can Grow turned off?

My reason for asking is that I am trying to duplicate something for work, and
I need the "fixed" lines and the word wrap.

Ken

I'm trying to design a report that has a list of items on the left
margin with horizontal lines between each item. I want the lines to

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to be fixed in one spot. So, how can I do that, and why doesn't the
change reflect in the Design View?

Sounds like you have CanGrow wnabled on the TextBoxes. Try turning that
off.

One sort of unrelated item. Is there a way to zoom the view when in
Design View? I looked using the normal method of clicking on View,
but I didn't see anything that appears to allow one to zoom the view.

Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.

There is no design view zoom other than the accessibility zoom provided by
Windows itself.

 

[Rick Brandt]

I was going to write that I'd tried that, but I tried it again and
verified that you are correct. That now brings up another question.
When Can Grow is turned on, text will automatically wrap when it gets
to the end of the designated field size, but it doesn't appear to
when Can Grow is turned off. Is there a way to get word wrap while
having Can Grow turned off?

My reason for asking is that I am trying to duplicate something for
work, and I need the "fixed" lines and the word wrap.

So if you have line wrapping you want the line to stay in place and have
text written right on top of it?

With CanGrow turned on the TextBox will grow vertically and if the top of
the line is below the bottom of the TextBox then the line will be pushed
down the page.

If you make the TextBox tall enough (pull the bottom downward) so that its
bottom edge is below the top of the line then the line will not be pushed
down the page when the TextBox grows.

Another possible alternative is to use the Print method of the report in
code to draw the lines. With that method your code determines where the
lines appear without respect to the other controls at all.