I'm New: Preserving Text Formatting Using Access

[geromefreeman]

I'm new to Access. I am creating a database for some jokes I've written and in one field I have the name of the joke and the next I have the content of the joke as a "memo" -- but the problem is it doesn't seem to preserve the formatting after I past it into a field and I need it to. Any suggestions?

 

[fneily]

Since you didn't state the version of Access, see:
Enter or edit data in a control or column that supports rich text

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/access/HA100311181033.aspx

For other versions, see:
Total Access Memo, by FMS Inc.,

 

[jrbarnett]

Another option is to save HTML markup text in the field and view it in a web browser control.

John

 

[geromefreeman]

Thanks a lot for the help.

 

[geromefreeman]

I am using Access 2003 so I guess Landon's ActiveX application is the only solution. But I don't really want to do that. Is that the only solution? And after installing it successfully, I'm not even sure how to implement it.

Maybe I'll need to upgrade to 2007.