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Magisch
Magisch

Reputation: 7352

Vertical Text in Access 2003 Forms

I have been trying with no success lately to implement vertical text on an Access 2003 form im designing. There is a vertical option in the properties of every text box, but its not in the right direction. Text boxes marked with the attribute vertical = true start their text at the top side and then run downwards, exactly not as I want.

So my question is:

  1. Is there native support for vertical textboxes other then the vertical attribute in Ms Access 2003
  2. Failing #1, is there a way to shift text in text boxes by 180°.
  3. Is #1 or #2 dependant on wether or not you have fixed text or text obtained from a data source.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 902

Answers (1)

Andre
Andre

Reputation: 27644

Microsoft really messed this up by only implementing the one vertical direction, and not the other. :(

  1. No
  2. If you are desperate enough, you can try one of the solutions by the Great Wizard aka Stephen Lebans: http://lebans.com/rotatetext.htm or http://lebans.com/xrotatetext.htm
    There are other external solutions (commercial), like Total Access Components.
  3. You'll have to try it out, but in comparison to the 90° rotation, making a label caption dynamic or giving a text box a constant text is trivial.

Upvotes: 3

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