Word wrap doesn't always work properly

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I have something odd happening with word wrap for text fields in a report:
Word wrap is not consistent. For this text field the 'Can Grow' property is
set to yes, and the field wraps, but it often cuts off the end of words.

For example, the text "No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKING
FINE" in this particular field appears as:
No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKIN
FINE
As you can see, the last letter of the word "WORKING" is missing.

Anybody out there have any thoughts? Do the upper case characters have
something to do with this problem?

Using: MSA2003, XP Pro
Thanks...
 
lwert said:
I have something odd happening with word wrap for text fields in a report:
Word wrap is not consistent. For this text field the 'Can Grow' property is
set to yes, and the field wraps, but it often cuts off the end of words.

For example, the text "No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKING
FINE" in this particular field appears as:
No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKIN
FINE
As you can see, the last letter of the word "WORKING" is missing.

Anybody out there have any thoughts? Do the upper case characters have
something to do with this problem?
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The only time I have experienced that kind of thing is when
using a faulty font. See if you can reproduce the problem
using a common font such as Arial.

I vaguely remember hearing about someone that had similar
problems because their printer driver was not up to date..
 
I have something odd happening with word wrap for text fields in a report:
Word wrap is not consistent. For this text field the 'Can Grow' property is
set to yes, and the field wraps, but it often cuts off the end of words.

For example, the text "No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKING
FINE" in this particular field appears as:
No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKIN
FINE
As you can see, the last letter of the word "WORKING" is missing.

Anybody out there have any thoughts? Do the upper case characters have
something to do with this problem?

Using: MSA2003, XP Pro
Thanks...
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First check the length of the field size a text string can be anything
up to 255 chars.

Next if you needs lots of space use a memo field instead of a text
field.
 
lwert said:
I have something odd happening with word wrap for text fields in a
report: Word wrap is not consistent. For this text field the 'Can
Grow' property is set to yes, and the field wraps, but it often cuts
off the end of words.

For example, the text "No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR
HTR/WORKING FINE" in this particular field appears as:
No charge work order (WO 159407) CK WTR HTR/WORKIN
FINE
As you can see, the last letter of the word "WORKING" is missing.

Anybody out there have any thoughts? Do the upper case characters
have something to do with this problem?

Using: MSA2003, XP Pro
Thanks...
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This is in the native Access report or when you export it in RTF format? The
latter is a well known issue whereas I have never heard of the former.
 
Thanks for all of the responses.

A few notes in response to your thoughts:
- This is a native access report and we are running it directly to the
printer in question.
- This seems to occur with more than one printer type. The particular one I
have been using for testing is an Adobe PDF driver, but this occurs on other
printers as well, such as an HP Officejet.
- The font I am using is Arial 8pt, which I believe is very common.
- The length of the text for the field is much less than 256 characters -
see the example I gave in my original post, which is very typical, and less
than 60 characters.

Any further thoughts?
Thanks...
 
Try using a different font.
Try increasing the resolution setting for your printer,
If you have the Margin property of the TextBox set to anything other than
ZERO then reset it to "0".


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Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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Try using a different font.
Try increasing the resolution setting for your printer,
If you have the Margin property of the TextBox set to anything other than
ZERO then reset it to "0".

--

HTH
Stephen Lebanshttp://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.
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check that the field size in you data base is long enough for the
string

it is the first variable in string type it can be 1-255 it usually
defaults to 50. which a rough count of you string
is about 50.

In Access open you table in design mode find your comment field and
check the field size my guess it is 50 change it to what ever you
think the maxim length would be and add 10 for safe keeping.
 
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