[AccessD] Sub Report not going into Two Columns

David Emerson newsgrps at dalyn.co.nz
Mon Feb 27 16:03:04 CST 2006


Thanks for the reply William.  I tried all that with no joy.  I might 
just have to go to fixed formatting.

David

At 27/02/2006, you wrote:
>...best guess is that the width of your design subreport area on the report
>is narrower than the width of the two columns in the subreport when the "can
>grow" is fully expanded at runtime ...try decreasing the font size of the
>columns to verify this is the problem ...or disable the "can grow" ...hth.
>
>William
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Emerson" <newsgrps at dalyn.co.nz>
>To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>; <ACCESS-L at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:07 AM
>Subject: [AccessD] Sub Report not going into Two Columns
>
>
> > Cross Posted Access D, Access L
> >
> > Access XP.
> >
> > I have a report which is a long column of text boxes with the text
> > entered into the control source. Because different printers format
> > reports slightly differently I have made the boxes shorter than the
> > text warrants and have set the can grow property on for all the text
> > boxes.  There are no records associated with this report.
> >
> > I have set the Page Setup .. Number of columns to 2 and when I view
> > the report the text boxes flow over two columns.  The full report is
> > two pages long.
> >
> > However, when I use the report as a subreport for another main report
> > then the text boxes remain in one column.  I have checked help and it
> > suggests changing the column order to across then down.  I have tried
> > this but it doesn't make any difference (I guess because there are no
> > records).
> >
> > Apart from physically placing the text boxes in two columns, does
> > anyone know how I can get them to flow properly?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > David Emerson
> > Dalyn Software Ltd
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