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    WSsculshaw
    AskWoody Lounger
    June 19, 2002 at 11:25 am #372494

    Is there some way to set the margins of individual text boxes question
    I’ve got the border style of my text boxes set to Solid but now the text, in this case names and fees are ‘touching’ the black borders. Ok on the names I can fudge it by setting the ControlSource to = ” ” & [StaffName], but this doesn’t work with the fees as they are set to Currency

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    • WSMarkLiquorman
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 19, 2002 at 11:29 am #595694

      I don’t think so, which is why I use a shade of grey for my control borders.

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      • WSsculshaw
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 19, 2002 at 11:32 am #595696

        Oh blast bummer
        Thanks for the response.
        I suppose I’m spoilt by the things you can do in Word tables, and even Excel cells.
        Back to the fudge approach then frown

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        • WSHansV
          AskWoody Lounger
          June 19, 2002 at 11:46 am #595698

          You can set the BorderStyle property of the text box to Transparent, and place a slightly larger box (rectangle) behind the text box.

          The font also seems to matter. Arial text has a tendency to “touch” the border of a text box; MS Sans Serif keeps a pixel away from it (mostly).

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          • WSsculshaw
            AskWoody Lounger
            June 19, 2002 at 11:49 am #595701

            Thanks for suggestion but as I’ve got over a dozen reports to do, the prospect of having to place all those additional boxes frown
            I’m interested to hear this about Arial “touching”, this could explain some other effects I’ve had reported to me thumbup

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            • WSBat17
              AskWoody Lounger
              June 19, 2002 at 3:46 pm #595766

              One other posibility would be to append a space the the front of the control, =” ” & [control] but this is probably nearly as bad as doing all the boxes frown

              Peter

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            • WSsculshaw
              AskWoody Lounger
              June 20, 2002 at 1:01 pm #596014

              My original thought was to do that, but the comment from HansV about the different fonts got me thinking, so I tried a few others apart from Arial
              Times New Roman, Tahoma and Verdana
              and they all seem to be better in that they don’t touch the border as much
              Also I’ve noticed that the output from the laser printer is a lot better than the inkjet I used originally.

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