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Report.FontSize Property (Access)

You can use the FontSize property to specify the point size for text in the following situations:

  • When displaying or printing controls on forms and reports.

  • When using the Print method on a report.

Read/write Integer.

Syntax

expression .FontSize

expression A variable that represents a Report object.

Remarks

The FontSize property uses the following settings.

Setting

Description

8

(Default for all reports and controls except command buttons) The text is 8-point type.

10

(Default for command buttons) The text is 10-point type.

Other sizes

The text is the indicated size.

You can set the default for this property by using a control's default control style or the DefaultControl property in Visual Basic.

For reports, you can set this property only in an event procedure or in a macro specified by the OnPrint event property setting.

In Visual Basic, you set the FontSize property by using a numeric expression equal to the desired size of the font. The setting for the FontSize property can be between 1 and 127, inclusive.

Example

The following example uses the Print method to display text on a report named Report1. It uses the TextWidth and TextHeight methods to center the text vertically and horizontally.

Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, _ 
 FormatCount As Integer) 
 Dim rpt as Report 
 Dim strMessage As String 
 Dim intHorSize As Integer, intVerSize As Integer 
 
 Set rpt = Me 
 strMessage = "DisplayMessage" 
 With rpt 
 'Set scale to pixels, and set FontName and 
 'FontSize properties. 
 .ScaleMode = 3 
 .FontName = "Courier" 
 .FontSize = 24 
 End With 
 ' Horizontal width. 
 intHorSize = Rpt.TextWidth(strMessage) 
 ' Vertical height. 
 intVerSize = Rpt.TextHeight(strMessage) 
 ' Calculate location of text to be displayed. 
 Rpt.CurrentX = (Rpt.ScaleWidth/2) - (intHorSize/2) 
 Rpt.CurrentY = (Rpt.ScaleHeight/2) - (intVerSize/2) 
 ' Print text on Report object. 
 Rpt.Print strMessage 
End Sub

See Also

Concepts

Report Object

Report Object Members