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Old September 30th, 2004, 11:38 AM
Rog
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Me again!!

Report is working fine now. Fields are single row height but Can Grow is set
to Yes but 'Publishing to Word' the field text is truncated.

Can anyone tell me how to resolve please?

Regards.
Roger.






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Old September 30th, 2004, 04:35 PM
Peter R. Fletcher
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This is a common problem with "publishing to Word" (really to RTF)
from Access. There is no 100% reliable fix, or at least none without
significant side-effects. It appears that the logic which determines
the (effectively fixed) field size in the output document sometimes
doesn't take proper account of the character spacing of the font being
used, and doesn't leave enough room for all the characters in the
output string. If you really want 100% control of your format and
editable output, you may need to look into using Word Automation from
Access.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:38:08 +0100, "Rog"
wrote:

Me again!!

Report is working fine now. Fields are single row height but Can Grow is set
to Yes but 'Publishing to Word' the field text is truncated.

Can anyone tell me how to resolve please?

Regards.
Roger.







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Old September 30th, 2004, 06:38 PM
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The post by TGates in the following link worked for me though I accept it
probably isn't 100%.

http://www.mcse.ms/archive153-2004-1-224124.html

In case the link is down the relevant bit is as follows:

"I've had the same problem with truncation and found that setting the
right margin of the text box control to something 0" (maybe .25")
will fix it."

Though I used 0.30 as 0.25 did not work in my case. So far so good. Also
just realised that my defaults are cm not inches as the post seems to infer.

Regards.
Roger.


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Old October 1st, 2004, 11:44 AM
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This will work for (relatively) short strings. I believe that it may
be difficult to find the right setting if you are dealing with memo
fields with blocks of text of widely varying size in them.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:38:41 +0100, "Rog"
wrote:

The post by TGates in the following link worked for me though I accept it
probably isn't 100%.

http://www.mcse.ms/archive153-2004-1-224124.html

In case the link is down the relevant bit is as follows:

"I've had the same problem with truncation and found that setting the
right margin of the text box control to something 0" (maybe .25")
will fix it."

Though I used 0.30 as 0.25 did not work in my case. So far so good. Also
just realised that my defaults are cm not inches as the post seems to infer.

Regards.
Roger.



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Old October 1st, 2004, 10:18 PM
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Peter, what is a relatively short string considered to be?


"Peter R. Fletcher" pfletch(at)fletchers(hyphen)uk.com wrote in message
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This will work for (relatively) short strings. I believe that it may
be difficult to find the right setting if you are dealing with memo
fields with blocks of text of widely varying size in them.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:38:41 +0100, "Rog"
wrote:

The post by TGates in the following link worked for me though I accept it
probably isn't 100%.

http://www.mcse.ms/archive153-2004-1-224124.html

In case the link is down the relevant bit is as follows:

"I've had the same problem with truncation and found that setting the
right margin of the text box control to something 0" (maybe .25")
will fix it."

Though I used 0.30 as 0.25 did not work in my case. So far so good. Also
just realised that my defaults are cm not inches as the post seems to

infer.

Regards.
Roger.



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exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher



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Old October 2nd, 2004, 11:48 AM
Peter R. Fletcher
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In this context, a few lines of text, rather than tens or hundreds of
lines.

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:18:20 +0100, "Rog"
wrote:

Peter, what is a relatively short string considered to be?


"Peter R. Fletcher" pfletch(at)fletchers(hyphen)uk.com wrote in message
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This will work for (relatively) short strings. I believe that it may
be difficult to find the right setting if you are dealing with memo
fields with blocks of text of widely varying size in them.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:38:41 +0100, "Rog"
wrote:

The post by TGates in the following link worked for me though I accept it
probably isn't 100%.

http://www.mcse.ms/archive153-2004-1-224124.html

In case the link is down the relevant bit is as follows:

"I've had the same problem with truncation and found that setting the
right margin of the text box control to something 0" (maybe .25")
will fix it."

Though I used 0.30 as 0.25 did not work in my case. So far so good. Also
just realised that my defaults are cm not inches as the post seems to

infer.

Regards.
Roger.



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exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher




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Old October 2nd, 2004, 10:09 PM
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Ok, thanks,


 




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