[AccessD] Creating a Bulleted List

...since the "bullet" is really just a text character, why not concatenate
it with the text using an IIF function to turn it on or off?

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Do you want liberty in your lifetime?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Creating a Bulleted List


   Dear List:

I have a report which is a number of pieces of boilerplate text which are
printed in the detail section of a report.  There is also a boilerplate
header text.

I set height of both to zero and the Can Grow property to true.  So far, so
good.  Formats nice.  The user can set the Bold, Underline, and Italic
properties for each piece of boilerplate.

Now he wants the option to add bullets to the detail text.  So I tried
putting a bullet in a label, invisible, height zero, aligned top with the
detail text.  If the text bullet property is set to True then I make the
label visible and set the height to 225 twips.  All OK except that because
the text can grow, instead of coming out like this:

(bullet)  Text One.
(bullet)  Text Two.

It comes out like this:

             Text One.
(bullet)
             Text Two.
(bullet)

Is there a way to make this work or a better way to create a bulleted list
in a report where the detail field may or may not be bulleted?

MTIA,

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
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