[AccessD] Sanity Check: Textbox between form and report wrapping doesn't match

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 19:00:43 CDT 2023


I have seen a disconnect between forms and reports like that. I always laid
it off on the forms being a little wonky since I'm using screen resizing.

But my solution was to make the report look like the form as much as
possible - never got a complaint from a client.

r

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got a 7x5 textbox on a form and a 7x5 textbox on a report, the
> wrapping between them does not match.
>
> Padding is the same between textboxes
> Dimensions are the same
> Font size/Font Name and Font Weight are the same.
> CanGrow and Canshrink properties are identical
> The form control anchor does allow it to stretch down but not across.
>
> Report margins do not interfere with the overall width of the textbox.
> Form textbox scroll bar does not appear to be the culprit in wrapping.
>
> The report generally has one less word (depending on the length of the
> word) on SOME lines, but not all.   If I shrink the textbox on the form by
> .25", for the test data I'm using I get a word for word match on the
> wrapping (again for the test data I tried).
>
> I'm trying to make sure when the user types it out they get a sense of how
> the report wrapping and length will appear.. so I'd like it to be 1:1.  Am
> I missing something obvious?
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