Auto spelling with underline

[snerting]

Hello

I see that Access has spelling checking, but I cant find a way to make it underline spelling errors with red and gramatically wrong sentences with green etc, like windows does. Is it possible to enable this for text controls?

 

[WildHare]

It's not WINDOWS that does this, it's WORD...I've never seen an example of how to make Access do it, without some tricky cross-application marriage between Word and Access...



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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman

 

[snerting]

Hehe, sorry, I meant of course Word, or MS Office really. I hoped that common office features were not application-specific like you suggest but I might be wrong.

If they could underline spelling errors in winword they should also be able to in access text controls.

 

[WildHare]

I feel your pain, and in one sense, it would be nice to have this feature. However, when one thinks about how much text is usually stored in a database record, and how 96% is 'not a real word' kind of stuff, you can see the reasoning behind not including it as a 'feature'.. getting the green squiggly to appear in a text box would be one thing...and remember, as far as your database is concerned, the characters in a field are just random junk - they aren't words in a sentance like Word views things....



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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman

 

[snerting]

????

I'm fully aware of what a database is, and remember that MS Access is not simply a datbase, it's a tool to make front-ends to the database. You will in lots of cases write text into databases that is supposed to be valid words - for example if you're putting simple articles into a database. If access is then the input application it would make sense to have spell checking wouldn't it? Just an example.

Now, Access already feature (as I've said) spell-checking and it works fine. The problem with it is that it is post-writing checking. I want the checking to be done real-time as it is a lot easier for the text writers when this is the case.

The database records are really not the concern here WildHare, just the input text controls.

 

[WildHare]

I wasn't meaning to cast aspersions on your skills - I tend to write responses thinking that everybody, not just the originator of the thread, will be reading them. But I agree with you, it would be nice, and probably wouldn't be all that tough to do for the leprechauns in Redmond. Apologies if my response seemed denigrating.

Jim

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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman

 

[snerting]

The reason for my perhaps "sharp" response was that you missed the question by a mile. I wasn't talking about the physical storage at all, just the forms you create on top of it.

These form controls already support all the other autocorrect stuff out there, like double upper-case letters in the beginning of words, making mdash automatically from ordinarly dashes, "on-demand" spell checking and all that stuff. What seems to me as the only thing lacking is continous spell checking in the text controls (or more specific: Access.TextBox).

 

[gol4]

Typically, a TextBox control is used to display, or accept as input, a single line of text. You can use the Multiline and ScrollBars properties to enable multiple lines of text to be displayed or entered.
You need to look at
The Windows Forms RichTextBox control is used for displaying, entering, and manipulating text with formatting. The RichTextBox control does everything the TextBox control does, but it can also display fonts, colors, and links; load text and embedded images from a file; undo and redo editing operations; and find specified characters. The RichTextBox control is typically used to provide text manipulation and display features similar to word processing applications such as Microsoft Word