Strike through text

[Oliver2003]

Is it possible to change the text in a text box to strike through text by clicking on a command button? What sort of code would this require?

Cheers

 

[WildHare]

This may not be the answer you want, but it would need a strike-though font - Access per se does not support that effect in a format, unlike Cell Formatting in Excel or Character styles in Word.

If you do have access to a native Strike-through font, you change the font style at run time like this:

Me.txtTextBoxname.FontName = "Bodoni Bold StrikeThru" or whatever your strikethrough font name is. Plus, you have to make sure that any PC that uses your system has that font installed..ugly, very ugly...

The only other possibility is to use a very thin line control, normally invisible, that you make visible when you want - making sure the BACKGROUND of the control is Transparent - and ajusting it's width to the length of the text in the control.


Jim




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[Oliver2003]

Cheers for the reply Jim, I'll give your ideas a try - I agree using a strike through font could be ugly!!