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Is there a way to create text for a form that appears raised and/or shadowed.
I've tried creating them in powerpoint and frontpage and copying them onto
the form, but it doesn't look very good. I need the text only raised, not
the label border.

Thanks in advance.
 
Is there a way to create text for a form that appears raised and/or shadowed.
I've tried creating them in powerpoint and frontpage and copying them onto
the form, but it doesn't look very good. I need the text only raised, not
the label border.

Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps you can use 2 text controls with the identical text and font
style.
Place the Text1 control directly on top of the Text2 control.
Then move Text1 slightly 'north' and 'east' of Text 2 so that the
effect is shadowed. Experiment for the shadow effect you like best.
 
Perhaps you can use 2 text controls with the identical text and font
style.
Place the Text1 control directly on top of the Text2 control.
Then move Text1 slightly 'north' and 'east' of Text 2 so that the
effect is shadowed. Experiment for the shadow effect you like best.
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I forgot to add that you will need to change the font color for the
shadow text (Text2) to a darker color than Text1.
 
thanks for your responses.... but I've tried that and don't really get the
effect I would like.
 
Access does not provide a "raised" effect for the text itself.

It's possible that you might find a font that appears raised and use it, but
you'd have to be sure to include the font if you distribute your Access
database application to anyone else. I don't think any fonts that are
included with standard distributions of Windows meet the criteria. There are
tens of thousands of fonts available, individually or in collections, on the
Internet or on CD/DVD media, for fee or for free.

My experiments, some years ago, with multiple text controls (up to three)
yielded some reasonably good-looking output for titles and headings but none
that were particularly readable for normal text.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
Thanks for responding. That's pretty much what I thought and I'd always
wondered if there was a "trick" for this.

Thanks!
 
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