How to view expanding/shrinking controls in form view?

[evelyn]

I'm using Acess 2000, and the help wizard states that the "can shrink/can
grow" property will affect the display of form sections and controls only
when the form is printed or previewed, not when the form is displayed in Form
view.

I need my users to be able to view all of the data in any given field when
the use the form i'm creating to add their comments, so telling them that
they need to click on the "print preview" function whenever a field appears
to be cut off is not ideal.

Any ideas on how to work around this?

 

[Steve Schapel]

Evelyn,

A few possible approaches to this...
1. Make sure the textbox in question has its Scroll Bars property set
to Vertical, so the user can scroll to see the rest of the text if it is
more than the textbox can accommodate.
2. Teach your users to press Shift+F2 when the textbox has the focus,
in order to open the Zoom Box view of the control.
3. Put a little command button next to the textbox, and write some code
that will open up the Zoom Box view of the control when the command
button is clicked.
4. Have a look at the sample database downloadable from
http://www.lebans.com/textwidth-height.htm for an idea that might help.
5. Have a look at the sample database downloadable from
http://www.lebans.com/cangrow.htm for an idea that might help.