Msgbox text font

[Susan Bricker]

Hi. I have Access 2003 and I am finding that the font in the text
displayed in Msgbox displays it too small. Is there anyway to increase
the font size of that text?

Regards,
SueB

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[Douglas J. Steele]

"Trevor Best" <no****@besty.o rg.uk> wrote in message
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There's also what MichKa has at
http://www.trigeminal.com/usenet/usenet015.asp

And of course, good old Eval("Msgbox("" @@blah"")")

Which is, of course, the gist of MichKa's suggestion...

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[Lyn]

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@ @ stopped working somewhere around Access 2000.

It still works in the hidden and undocumented wizmsgbox procedure:

Public Sub blahblah()
With WizHook
.Key = 51488399
.WizMsgBox "Bold Line @ @ Not So Bold Line", _
"The Caption", vbYesNo, 23, "Path To Some Help File"
End With
End Sub

(tested in Access 2002).

Still works in A2003. Thanks for that, I never knew it existed. Not
sure how/when I would use it either :-)

There's also what MichKa has at
http://www.trigeminal.com/usenet/usenet015.asp

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Interesting. I have had a bit of a play with both WizMsgBox and
FormattedMsgBox . If you use "@ @" in both, they seem to behave the same way
(text prior to the "@ @" in bold, then four line feeds to the remaining
text -- also a limit on the length of subsequent text). But using a single
"@" only works in FormattedMsgBox (text prior to the first "@" in bold, two
line feeds after each "@", but again with a limit to the total number of
lines).

On balance, FormattedMsgBox seems to be a bit more flexible.

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Cheers,
Lyn.

[Trevor Best]

ly******@yahoo. ca wrote:

@ @ stopped working somewhere around Access 2000.

It still works in the hidden and undocumented wizmsgbox procedure:

Public Sub blahblah()
With WizHook
.Key = 51488399
.WizMsgBox "Bold Line @ @ Not So Bold Line", _
"The Caption", vbYesNo, 23, "Path To Some Help File"
End With
End Sub

(tested in Access 2002).

What's the significance of the .Key property?

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[Trevor Best]

Lyn wrote:

Interesting. I have had a bit of a play with both WizMsgBox and
FormattedMsgBox . If you use "@ @" in both, they seem to behave the same way
(text prior to the "@ @" in bold, then four line feeds to the remaining
text -- also a limit on the length of subsequent text). But using a single
"@" only works in FormattedMsgBox (text prior to the first "@" in bold, two
line feeds after each "@", but again with a limit to the total number of
lines).

On balance, FormattedMsgBox seems to be a bit more flexible.

There is one drawback with both these methods and an extra bonus.

The bonus is that they support different alphabets, I use the Eval
method (as in Michka's FormattedMsgBox ) to enable me to tell the Ruskis
they typed something in wrong :-) The standard (interaction.) msgbox
would display garbage when sent cyrillic text. (Well, actually I haven't
tested the Wizhook with a different alphabet)

The con is that the standard msgbox when displayed, you can hit Ctrl+C
and it copies the text of the messagebox, using the alternative ones,
this doesn't happen.

That functionality is useful for getting users to email me an error
message rather than having to copy it down manually (error prone) or
Alt-PrntScrn and send an image (some users have problems doing that).

Although I can look in their error logs to get the message (wading
through a load of them) it's just not as easy as them hitting Ctrl+C
then pasting that into an email.

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[lylefair]

It identifies the user as a wizard, thus permitting the subsequent call
of WizMsgBox.
Use
..Key = "Condola"
for witch.