How could a three dots become a bolded vertical line in a textbox in MS Access 2000?

[James P.]

Help,

In Access 2000, I have a bound column - textbox. As soon as I type
three dots (periods) in the textbox and keep typing (more dots or
anything else), it automatically converts the three dots to a bolded
vertical line. How could I turn that vertical line off?

Thanks in advance,
James

[Bernard Peek]

In message <f4**************************@posting.google.com >, James P.
<ha*********@yahoo.com> writes

Help,

In Access 2000, I have a bound column - textbox. As soon as I type
three dots (periods) in the textbox and keep typing (more dots or
anything else), it automatically converts the three dots to a bolded
vertical line. How could I turn that vertical line off?

Sounds as if Access is automatically converting your three dots to an
ellipsis character, but the font you are using doesn't display it
correctly. You should either alter the autocorrect settings in Access or
the font you are using.


--
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.

[Allen Browne]

This is the auto-correct, common to Office applications.

1. Open your form in design view.
2. Right-click the text box, and choose Properties.
3. On the Other tab, set autocorrect to No.
4. Repeat for your other text boxes and combos on your various forms.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"James P." <ha*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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In Access 2000, I have a bound column - textbox. As soon as I type
three dots (periods) in the textbox and keep typing (more dots or
anything else), it automatically converts the three dots to a bolded
vertical line. How could I turn that vertical line off?

Thanks in advance,
James

[David W. Fenton]

"Allen Browne" <Al*********@SeeSig.Invalid> wrote in
news:40***********************@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:

This is the auto-correct, common to Office applications.

1. Open your form in design view.
2. Right-click the text box, and choose Properties.
3. On the Other tab, set autocorrect to No.
4. Repeat for your other text boxes and combos on your various
forms.

Alternatively, if you have large text fields where having
Autocorrect might be appropriate (it's certainly not appropriate for
a combo box, for instance, and it's bloody stupid of MS to have set
up Access to have Autocorrect turned on automatically for all
controls), you have two alternatives:

1. use a font that has the ellipsis character (if you're using MS
Sans Serif, switch to Arial), OR

2. delete the ellipsis entry from the Autocorrect list.

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David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton at bway dot net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc