formatting text in a field

[misscrf]

This is probably a new one, so hold on to your boots!

I have users working with a database that holds biographies of people. The different fields hold things like education, full bios, activities, etc.

For example, the full bios needs to be able to be formatted for each record individually. I.E. My bios has text that say 'I went to college' and we want that underlined. It also has text further on in that same field that says 'I have two cats' which we want italicized. For another person's record the field with have completely different text and require different formatting.

What I am looking for is the best possible solution. This may be HTMl coding in the field, it may be mail merge ( but that will probably require a lot of manual work and the goal is to keep the data maintained in the database), there may be other solutions. Got any?

Can html coding work in an Access field to an Access report, are there any other ways to accomplish this?

Thanks all!

misscrf

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[dhookom]

You could possibly use a rich text control like the one at

http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm.

Duane
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[misscrf]

Thanks. I have convinced the users to just have separate word files and to maintain them separately. Access is not meant to do what they want, and I explained that to them enough to convince the masses. :-D
Whew to that headache!


misscrf

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