I'm building a database on MS Access. I have 2 text box control which are both set as long text and see formatted as plain text. When the user enters data into these fields, most of the time it's a couple of paragraphs of text, so line breaks are required to start a new paragraph. I have both fields set to go to new line after hitting the enter button. Up until I linked the data tables to SharePoint the textbox fields on the userforms and reports would show those line breaks between paragraphs just fine. Now that I have linked the database tables to SharePoint, those line breaks don't show and it's now just a text box of run on plain text. Not showing the necessary breaks between paragraphs. I checked the SharePoint table, and the field in the table shows the breaks perfectly. I then checked the field in the data table within the database and it appears those breaks aren't there. And thus those breaks won't show in the userforms when the record is called up to view in a userform and even reports.
Any advise to possibly fix this would be a big help!!! I'm at the tail end of this project and not having theses breaks between paragraphs makes things look messy.
Thanks in advance!!!
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So I am creating a database and need to enter two titles into a text box. I want to type the first one, and when I am done I try to hit "enter" to jump down to the next line but all it does is save what I entered and exit the text box. What I am doing wrong? I'm so used to just hitting "enter" when I'm in Microsoft Word to start a new line but that does not seem to be how it works in Access.
Press control-enter to get a newline.
Just a tip: If you are entering two values in a single field like that, you have a badly designed table structure.
Is this text box in a table/query grid view or is it a control on a form? If it's on a form, then in design mode there is a property of the text box called Enter key behaviour that you can use to determine whether focus should jump to the next control or a new line should be entered within the text box (as you're after).
I am using MS Access 2013 to display data from a MySql database on another server. I have a table that uses the linked table. I have a textbox with about 100 words in it. When I click in the textbox the cursor can sometimes appear in the middle of a letter. If I try to add or delete text it appears offset from the position of the cursor. I have turned off auto-correct and tried changing the behavior of the enter key. How can I make the cursor behave normally?
Most probably the text contains a Tab character. The textbox doesn't show it but it messes up editing as you describe.
Copy the text into a text editor that can show invisible control characters.
I have a website where users can add comments and I am storing those comments in SQL server database. The field where I am storing the comments is nvarchar(4000). While testing I found that I had to press 'Enter' 3 times to get the desired paragraph formatting (when I view in Chrome). Usually in text editors like notepad I have to press 'Enter' 2 times to write next paragraph.
I checked in database and it looks like the text is stored as having paragraph breaks just as I want. The weird thing is that when I open my website in IE, I have no paragraph, just continuous plain text.
So, I have 2 questions:
Why do I have to press 'Enter' 3 times to get the same formatting which is similar to pressing 'Enter' 2 time in notepad?
Why is IE not having any paragraph breaks?
Thanks.
I was able to achieve this by replacing the carriage character and new line character as:
mytext.ToString().Replace("\r\n","<br/>")
i'm working with ms access and i have a report wich i want to exporte in Word when complete.
I'm facing problem with a text box while exporting. The report looks like this
The problem is i cannot know how much would be written in that textbox , 2,3,4..word pages. And i cannot create a text box extremley big to hold every possible size cause i would export blank pages with only the top (title and logos). How can i make it dynamically expandable?
Heres the report with text, there are many many 'aaa...' up not shown , it was just to make you see the line of '1' to show that they dont appear after export
And here is the exported result
I have created an Access 2013 report consisting of several Text fields all bolonging to one record. However when I open the report, in some cases a field is cut up over 2 pages, and some text is missing/lost between the pages.
Apparently i need a "reputation" to post images, and am totally new in here, so I dont have that, but I do have an image of the problem that I can send if there is another way to do this.
There must be somewhere I can set a property on the report, grouping or field or whereever, but I cant find the setting, and have tried a lot of things allready.
It would be ok, that the field is moved to the next page if it caannot be fitted into the current one, as long as the text within the field is not lost.
Hoping you can help me...
Best regards
Ingrid