[AccessD] Coordinating use of space on report

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 06:48:53 CDT 2007


What about doing a little arithmetic on each row? Would that work? You could
right-justify the score, count the characters in same, then print as many
chars of the team name as will still fit.

hth,
Arthur

On 8/5/07, Steve Schapel <miscellany at mvps.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for this comment, Rocky.  I have found that the amount of
> characters you can fit in to a given space with Courier is considerably
> less than the proportional fonts.  And ugly, yes I agree.
>
> I am not working on solving the situation using overlapping controls,
> and abbreviating the data as required in code.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>
> Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote:
> > Courier is ugly and takes more space than, say, Arial narrow.  But
> everybody
> > has it, AFAIK.  And it's fixed width.
> >
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