[AccessD] Alignment Issue

Charles:

I sent you an email offlist with two pdf attachments to illustrate my
'alignment' issue.  I tried to send'em to this list, but I forgot that we're
not supposed to put attachments  to the list ... sorry.

Also, please respond on-list.  I've had to neuter my hotmail so much because
of the SPAM (not the food...) that I might not get your response...I think
I'm going to change my AccessD email address to my personal email account so
I don't have to worry about this stuff.

Thanks.
Greg Smith
weeden1949 at hotmail.com  (for the moment...!!!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wortz, Charles" <CWortz at tea.state.tx.us>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Alignment Issue


Greg,

There are align options for top, bottom, left, and right.  I have used
them all and they all work as expected.  To align all your labels on the
bottom, select all the labels and click on align | bottom.  If that is
not working for you, please give us more information about the problem
you are experiencing.

Charles Wortz
Software Development Division
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-1494
512-463-9493
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us



-----Original Message-----
From: Greg S [mailto:weeden1949 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday 2003 Aug 06 14:05
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Alignment Issue

Hi everyone!  No comment on "William's Signature Line..." and the
...oops...almost...never mind.

I have a problem with aligning (vertically) labels and/or fields on a
report when there are (1) various font sizes being used and (2)
word-wrap in text boxes.

(1) For example, let's say I have a "table", if you want to call it
that, in a report, where the left column contains the row label
(identity) for everything in that row.  The remaining columns contain
fields from query results, sums, totals, etc.  I obviously can easily
align the like fields with each other.  The problem starts when trying
to align the left column labels, which are, for example, font size 12,
with the rest of the fields in that row, which are 10.  Aligning the
field/label boxes does NOT do the trick.  Because of the larger font,
that box has to be larger, in which case the letters sit up higher in
it, and don't align with the others any longer. Most of my clients don't
say anything, either out of politeness, or they think I'm a friggin'
idiot and can't even align stuff in a row.  I can see the misalignment,
but have never found a surefire way of making the letters truely align.
It's always bugged me, but today, just back from vacation, it's more
irritating than normal.

(2) And in a similar vein, when you have labels, which are, for example,
column headings, and some of them just fill the label box and some of
them wrap around because they're too long for the column width.  Ever
try aligning those dudes on the bottom?  Without doing it manually, that
is.

They can be aligned manually (eyeball) and look fairly good, but I was
thinking there had to be a more accurate way to do it.  I'm currently
using A97, but use 2k and XP on occasion as well.

Thanks in advance!

Greg Smith
weeden1949 at hotmail.com
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