Expanding Textboxes CanShrink, CanGrow?

[Kenton]

Howdy

I've read and re-read the helpfile on CanGrow, CanShrink Properties and I cant seem to get a report to do what the help says.

Also ...
I've seen some threads on creating lines next to textbox fields but they don't seem to do what I want.

What I want is in the detail section for textboxes to grow so they are all the same size.

ie
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| Name | Comments |
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|Fred Nurk | This guy has never paid |
| | any bills in his life. |
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|John Doe | This guy is dead |
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According to help, I set CanShrink on both textboxes to Yes.
I have tried just about every combination of CanShrink & CanGrow for the textboxes and also the detail section.
All I ever get is "Name" 1 row high and "Comments" varied in height.

What am I doing wrong?
Kenton

 

[danvlas]

You're doing nothing wrong. It's just that the Name does not need to grow...

However, you can make the report "look" like the controls have the same height:
Place a line under the controls, as close as you can.
Set the border of the controls to 'Transparent'
This will display variable height rows in your reports.

HTH,

Dan

 

[Kenton]

Ahh yes, but (no)help says under CanGrow, CanShrink Properties

"...two text boxes side by side in a section ... both text boxes will be two lines long because the section is sized across its entire width"

I'm confused ... actually I think the help is confused.

 

[Kenton]

Sorry,

Also, the line underneath doesn't work when you've got groupings with non-repeated values. The lines get repeated, DOH!