Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-23 Thread Harvey Nimmo
Hello Noel, I think the 'right' approach must be to 'patch' the height of the box and, thereupon, the height of the detail section at the loading of each record. I suspect there must be some way of accessing those attributes which is documented somewhere. I suppose the slightly more difficult bit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Marion & Noel Lodge
Hi Harvey, Originally I used Alex's method and made the height of the text box twice what I needed, to accommodate the overflow. But this has the effect of the report lines being effectively double spaced, except for just a few long lines. It also uses twice as much paper, if the report is print

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Harvey Nimmo
On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 17:50 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: > On 22/01/2014 16:40, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > > Hi Harvey, > > > > I am fetching records from a query and putting them in various text > > boxes in the 'detail' section of a report. Two fields of each record > > may, however, contain more te

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 22/01/2014 16:40, Harvey Nimmo wrote: Hi Harvey, > I am fetching records from a query and putting them in various text > boxes in the 'detail' section of a report. Two fields of each record > may, however, contain more text than fit into the corresponding text box > and would need to be print

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Harvey Nimmo
Dear Alex, > Le 20/01/2014 21:02, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : > > Hi Harvey, > > > > > > Can anyone help me to create a list report which has one field that may > > expand to more that one text line? Most lines of the report in the > > detail report section are just one line deep. However, a few fie

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 20/01/2014 21:02, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : Hi Harvey, > > Can anyone help me to create a list report which has one field that may > expand to more that one text line? Most lines of the report in the > detail report section are just one line deep. However, a few fields may > wrap round to more