sideways text in text box 1

[Jucius]

This seems like a pretty obvious question but I didn't find anything on it in the faqs or a search of this board.

It's simple:

How do I create a text box where the text is sideways, so that you would have to rotate the page 90 degrees the see the field normally?

 

[DougP]

If it is fixed text you can create a bitmap or other image.
If you want a Textbox to do that it can't be done.

I made a report one time that used bitmaps in Imageboxes on the report.
It looked at the data (numbers only) and then loaded each bitmap into the images when it printed.

Something like so.
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DougP, MCP

 

[Jucius]

Thankd Doug.

It seems I am out of luck then because the text is dynamically generated.

 

[DougP]

Is it just numbers or both letters and numbers???

I can assist you with the bitmap idea if you want.
DougP, MCP

 

[Jucius]

It's a text string that I want to print sideways (basically as an axis on a dynamically generated chart.) The string is found via a DLookup statement which takes variables from another form.

It's not critical that it get there because there is an alternate way I was going to present it.