how to vertically align text in text box???

[mrweatherbee]

This seems like it should be simple, but I just can't figure it out...I have a text box on a form and report that I want to vertically align in the center, but I just can't find the control or commmand or any code to figure out how to do this? an example:

If anyone can help me out with this i'd appreciate it...thanks!

if i had a text box like

___
|
|
___|

i want the text to appear like this
___
|
x |
___|

rather than this

___
x |
|
___|

hopefully that made sense... thanks for your help!

mr.w

 

[gusbrunston]

Dear Mr. W:
One way to do it would be to use the "Top Margin" property on the property sheet for the control. I frequently use left and right margins of 0.0299" to bring the displayed text in from the sides--top margin should work the same way.
Hope this helps you,
Gus Brunston
An old PICKer
padregus@home.com

 

[GingerR]

gusbrunston--i had never seen that feature so just went to look and darn if i don't see what you mean? there is TOP and LEFT for a text box, but that is just for its placement on the form.

mr. w--is the text in there always only one row high (or i mean the same height all the time?) or does it vary?

g

 

[mrweatherbee]

the height of the text in the box (which is actually about 5 or 6 text lines high?) will likely vary, which is what makes it difficult? otherwise i could have just used some kind of margin maybe. anyways, any help would be greatly appreicated.

 

[gusbrunston]

Hi, GingerR
Maybe it's not in your version, but in Access2000 there's a property called "Top Margin" which will do what Mr. W indicated he wanted to do. So, if he has Access2000 or later, it's there. However, with a varying number of lines of text...I think he's going about something the wrong way.
Gus Brunston
An old PICKer
padregus@home.com

 

[gusbrunston]

Mr. W:
I've never used it, but there is a property for a control called, Can Grow. Why don't you try letting that expand the control to fit whatever text you need to display?
Gus Brunston
An old PICKer
padregus@home.com

 

[mrweatherbee]

hmmm, well the only problem with that is that i'm doing a from that will create a cover page report, so everything has to fit in a certain spot on the page and it has to be one page...so basically, it's like if i used CanGrow then i'd have to set it up on the form and report like this:


[Title Box]
[Agency Box]




[Date Box]


so if the agency name filled up 5 lines of text, it would be fine, cos it would grow to fill up that white space before the date
like:

Title
Agency
Agency
Agency
Agency
Agency
Date

and look fine...but say it only filled one line of text, it would look like:

Title
Agency




Date

which wouldn't be cool cos of too much white space! i want it end up in this case like:

Title


Agency


Date


Again, this is kind of confusing, so i hope it makes sense...but again, any help would be appreicated...