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 text than fit into the corresponding text box > > and would need to be printed on more than one line. Unfortunately, I do > > not know how to the change the text box height dynamically to allow the > > full text of the record field to be displayed. Obviously, if that were > > somehow possible, also the height of the 'detail' section would have to > > be increased for that record (and both would have to be reset for the > > next record). The height of a text box (in the properties table) is > > 'fixed' and I can find no attribute that would make a text box > > 'expandable' as needed for the above. Where can I do that? > > Ah, that rings a bell as an oft requested feature improvement. You might > want to wade through LO's bugzilla to see if someone hasn't already > registered this - it may well even have come up on this mailing list before. > > At present, there is no way that I know of to do what you want, other > than making your text fields sufficiently dimensioned when creating yur > report to take account of the odd record or two that exceeds the single > line. > > Alex
Well, it doesn't sound like a bug, but rather a feature that may or may not be supported. I had the thought I might try a macro, but I need help for that and pointing in the right direction. Harvey -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
