field attributes and design

[Joe Chromy, Jr]

Afternoon everyone!

I am at a loss right now and hopeful someone can help me in this news group. I have created an access db and various tables. I need to copy and
paste information from a web site (press releases) into a long field in this access db.... When I do this the formatting attributes change to a
straight text string (paragraph formats and carriage returns are removed) upon saving the change.

Is there a way I can change the field attributes so that the field can retain the basic layout and formatting so it is easier to read for the user?

Also - related - can an ACCESS field retain/read HTML or SHTML code?

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[Tim Ferguson]

Is there a way I can change the field attributes so that the field can
retain the basic layout and formatting so it is easier to read for the
user?

In a word, no. You can download a rich-text control that will save and
reproduce text formatting -- try looking at Steve Lebans's site first.

A normal memo field and text box control should at least maintain
paragraph formatting from a web page: unless the page bas been created by
one of these bone-headed, lame-brained morons for whom standards is just
a difficult question in spelling-B's, and who think they are clever to

Also - related - can an ACCESS field retain/read HTML or SHTML code?

If you can be bothered to access the page source and copy-and-paste that,
then it will be remembered. It seems to me that it should be possible to
automate a Web Browser control on an Access form to display it too; but
bear in mind that any half-decent web page will be CSS-driven and you
won't neccessarily have access to the CSS file unless you really go out
of your way to get that.

Best guess is to look at a Rich Text ActiveX control.

Hope that helps


Tim F