That sounds like just what I'm looking for. :)

Is it on the form controls toolbar under active-x, or do you need to do something special to use it? I hope it's not one of those that tells me I don't have the right license. There's a bunch of them under that active-x section. I don't know why they included them if they aren't going to license you to use them.

Thanks,

-Michelle


>>That's ok. It's not a critical thing, so it wouldn't have been a big deal if
>On your form use the RTF Control from the OLE controls. It looks like an edit box with all the bells for RTF control.
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>HTH
>Jeff
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>I thought I couldn't do it. I just thought I'd add a little "perk" to the plain editbox. More than likely, my users won't know what to do with it anyway. :)
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>>Now the question is, how do I make an editbox use RTF, since you seem to be saying it doesn't do it natively?
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>>Thanks,
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>>-Michelle
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>>>Thanks to David for the correction. Now I know how I was misinterpreting what I had read. Memo fields can't contain formatted text but, as David stated, can contain RTF formatting directives which is just text. The caveat to remember is that the memo field must always be displayed in something that supports RTF directives (i.e. It'll look like garbage in an EditBox)
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>>>Sorry for almost sending you down the garden path. Reminds me of a bumper sticker..."Don't follow me, I'm lost to" :-)
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>>>>Oh, that's cool. I guess the fancy editbox project is back on, then. :)
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>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>-Michelle
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>>>>>Michelle,
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>>>>>You can indeed store the formatted text in a memo. The RTF formatting commands are plain text directives. I think the solutions.app shows how to do it.
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>>>>>>>You can do the formatting using the RTF control but the text must be stored in a General field. Memo fields won't store formatting.
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>>>>>>Ah, that's a key point there. I wanted to use it on memo fields. Oh, well. No formatting, then.