apply format to a control (2003 sp2)

[chuckrau]

How can I apply a BOLD format to a control on a form?

[grovelli]

Select the control in design view and click the Bold command on the Formatting toolbar.

[MarkLiquorman]

You could open the form in design mode and click the "Bold" icon on the toolbar.

Or, through code you could set the FontBold property of the control to True.

[chuckrau]

I always leave something out or my post, but your reply Mark, is what I was looking for. In this case the control is referred to in a string expression within a text box.

The text box value is like this: ="Expenses are currently being paid from" & [PAY_EXPENSES] & " of the Account."

The value of [PAY_EXPENSES] would be Income or Principal. Since the value is embedded, you might say, in the sentence I thought I would bold it when the form opened. No success yet.

[HansV]

If you mean that you want to display only the value of PAY_EXPENSES in bold while the rest of the text remains normal, that is not possible. You can only apply formatting such as font size, color and style to the control as a whole, not to part of it.

[johnhutchison]

To achieve that you need to use multiple controls, because you can't apply formatting to part of a control.

In the example below, there are two labels either side of a textbox. The textbox is bold, the labels are not.