![]() Inserting an image into a document? The Ribbon contains everything you need to resize, color correct, wrap text around, or otherwise format that image. ![]() Adding a table or a chart? You’ll find a complete set of tools for editing and formatting the same. Working on a word processing document? The Ribbon displays a set of text formatting tools. One other tip–if you just want to see the full contents of one field without doing any resizing, put the cursor in the field and then press SHIFT+F2 to open the Zoom dialog box.Word 2011 has the Ribbon, an intelligent, customizable toolbar that provides you with a set of formatting tools suited to your current task. In Layout View or Design View, the Anchoring command is located on the Arrange tab. You can use this feature to make a text box automatically get wider or taller as you resize the form or the Access window. If the form is only to be viewed on the screen, you’ll just need to design your form so that text boxes that are likely to contain lots of text are larger than the others. The text will wrap automatically, and scroll bars will appear by default when there is still too much text to display (unless, of course, you’ve turned scroll bars off in the Property Sheet).Īnother tip for forms: check out the control “anchoring” feature, which was introduced in Access 2007 and is described in the video Make a text box grow or shrink as you resize a form. You can also set the CanGrow property for a control on a form however, the setting only takes effect when you print the form or view it in Print Preview. If you create a simple report by using the Report tool on the Create tab, you’ll see the CanGrow property in action. This makes for a better presentation than a datasheet, because each row is set to the necessary height for that record. On reports, you can set the CanGrow property of text boxes and report sections to Yes, which lets them adjust their heights automatically based on the amount of text they contain. The catch is that the new row height applies to all rows in the datasheet, so the datasheet takes up more vertical space and you wind up doing more scrolling to view all your records. ![]() In a datasheet view, you need to manually adjust the row height before you can see the text that wraps to subsequent lines. ![]() The process for doing that depends on what kind of object you’re working with. The key is making sure there is enough room for the text to wrap. It may surprise you to learn that in most places where text is displayed in Access, text wrapping is on by default. ![]() How do you wrap text in Access? It’s a question we hear quite frequently on. ![]()
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