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

[James Button]

And you should be aware that some printers do not function well if there are
more linefeeds at the end of the data than will fit onto the printable height of
the paper 
And - of course the font and it's  size has a substantial impact too - unless
you are using a printer that has a set line/font height and on some printers, or
PC OS setups there is also the font substitution to consider

JimB 


-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] How to Embed Line Feeds in a Single Field that Appears on
a Report

You can't type the Chr$() directly into the tetxt, if you do, it's still just
text.
When entering text manually into a field in a table. press Ctrl+Enter where you
want the Line 
feed.  That will actually put a CR and a LF character in the text.



On 22 Sep 2016 at 14:49, Brad Marks wrote:

> 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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