Using tables created in 2003 IN 2007

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My office has recently upgraded to 2007. I enjoy new features such as the
ability to highlight a few words within the table without the ENTIRE table's
font changing; unfortunately, this only works in tables I have created since
the upgrade. My old tables that were brought over from 2003 do not have this
capability. Is there an add-on out there? I do not have to resort to
re-typing and creating all new tables. PS. Copy and pasting into a new table
does not work. Convertting the file using the office button does not work.
Help? please?
 
I think you talking about what is called rich text, and that is a new
feature for 2007.

Open up the table in design mode, and for the column in question, it have to
be a memo column.

In the property sheet setting, you see a property called

Text Format

If you change the above setting to rich text, then you get the
font/color/size formatting available you speak of.

Note that these "rich text" memo columns can also be used on a forms, and
then you have to set in BOTH places the text format (in the table, and ALSO
the text box).
 
What Albert forgot to mention explicitly is that this only works when the
database is in the new ACCDB file format. If your tables are still in the
old MDB file format, you won't be able to use the feature even though you
may be using Access 2007.
 
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