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Adding a Decent Tick to Your Access Report
By Garry Robinson
If you want a tick (or an empty box) in a report that doesn't look as quirky as a check box, its time to add a new field to your query and use the Chr() function. Then add that new field to the report and assign the data control the WindDings font. Thanks to Armen Stein of J Street Technology, Access MVP and Author for the inspiration for this tip. Look at the picture and you will see how it is done.
External Links
See the fonts
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html
Read about the history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdings
Comments By Others
Regarding the ticks on the report, I use the same technique
quite often, and particularly on reports and Command Buttons, to give me access
to a lite version of many pictures without having to (a) supply image files or
(b) embed them (and thus bloat the database filesize). Unfortunately, in
ListBoxes and the like, it only works for the single-byte character sets.
Regards,
Graham R Seach, Access MVP
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