[AccessD] Creating a Bulleted List

...picky, picky, picky :)
...how about using an image control for your bullet set for inline with your
text box control? ...that should give you the effect you want ...HTH :)

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: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Creating a Bulleted List


> Well, I'm trying to gild the lily by making it look like a hanging
indent -
> that is, a multi-line section of text would all be left adjusted with the
> bullet to the left of the first line.  Just pre-pending the bullet to the
> text will work, I suppose, if I can't get it to look like a bulleted list
in
> a Word doc.
>
> Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [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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