[AccessD] How to Embed Line Feeds in a Single Field that Appears on a Report

[Brad Marks]

For testing, I built a small Access application with one table.

In this table, I added three fields;
Short text
Long Text (Plain Text format)
Long Text (Rich Text format)

I then added this data to each of the three fields in the table

Line1 Chr$(13)  Chr$(10) Line2

I then built a small report to display these three fields.

Here is what I see on the report for each of the three fields -

Line1 Chr$(13)  Chr$(10) Line2


I was hoping to see this

Line1
Line2





Brad 



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:21 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] How to Embed Line Feeds in a Single Field that Appears on a Report

If vbCrLf doesn't work (it only works in VBA, not in queries), use Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) in its place.



On 22 Sep 2016 at 14:08, John Bodin wrote:

> Brad, if you put in vbCrLf's and Chr(9)'s when building your Single
> Field, does the report strip them out?
> 
> 
> So does "Hello" & vbCrLf & "World" & vbCrLf & "Hello" & chr(9) &
> "World" produce
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> World
> 
> Hello   World
> 
> 
> or simply
> 
> 
> HelloWorldHelowWorld
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Bodin
> 
> sBOR Office Systems
> 
> jbodin at sbor.com<mailto:jbodin at sbor.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> on behalf of Brad
> Marks <bradm at blackforestltd.com> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016
> 9:32 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject:
> [AccessD] How to Embed Line Feeds in a Single Field that Appears on a
> Report
> 
> All,
> 
> We have a rather complicated Access report (Shop Work Order). 
> Currently there is a single field near the top of this report that
> displays information that is entered manually into our manufacturing
> system.  Our users control how this information appears on the report
> by entering the info with line breaks and tabs.
> 
> This single field on the report is set up to "Grow" because the amount
> of data can vary widely, from 0 lines up to maybe 20-30 lines.
> 
> We are now changing our processing and the information that was
> previously entered manually will now be coming from one or more
> "detail" records in the manufacturing database.
> 
> I am planning to combine the data from these detail records into a
> single field (in a temporary table) which will be mapped to the field
> on the report. So far, this works nicely, except for one issue.
> 
> I am not sure how to embed "line feeds" and tabs in this one single
> field when this field is being constructed from the detail records.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad Marks
> 
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