>>>>Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but cannot check boxes be displayed on a report form?
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>>>Bill Caton sent me this one day and should work for a report.
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>>>set the report field font to "Wingdings" and in the code behind the field:
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>>>IIF(myLogicalField, CHR(252), "")
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>>>which gives a check mark when true and blank when false.
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>>I tried this and the character for wingding of a checkmark is ALT + 252. I can enter the following in the field IIF(lfinished, CHR(252), "") and it works, but I cant figure out how to show the ALT 252 If someone knows how to do this them the report will print a checkmark when run.
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>Hi Bret,
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>I don't quite follow the last part of your question. I've used this method on reports and it seems to work ok. Therefore, I don't think I understand your last statement.
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>Bill

I Bill I can get the report to show the wingding character for 252 (CHR(252), but the 'checkmark' character in my character map shows the keystrokes to be ALT 0252. So how do I incorporate the entry of the ALT in the IIF expression?