[AccessD] Multi-Line ControlTips

Dan Waters dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Aug 27 16:22:07 CDT 2008


A while back (pre Access 2000?) if you wrote out a tool tip, it would
automatically roll down to a 2nd and 3rd line if needed.  That seemed to
have gone away with Access 2000+.  (I'm using Access 2003 so I'm not
completely sure.)

I discovered a while back that you can have multi-line control tips in
Access 2000+, and you can control where the line break is.

When you are in the ControlTip Text property field, just push Ctrl+Enter
where you want the line break to occur.  The 2nd line seems to disappear,
but if you first click the cursor at the end of the text in the ControlTip
Text field, and then use your down arrow key, the 2nd (or next) line will
appear in the ControlTip Text field.  How's that for non-obvious!

I had a chance today to use this again, so perhaps someone here can make use
of it.

Dan







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