I'm with Colin. The problem in doing this with Access is that Access does not support, for lack of a better term, "Shapes." Word, Excel, and Powerpoint can insert shapes with text fill areas. I have not seen this feature for Access, though. It does not appear that there is an interface to the "Shapes" library. I could agree with you that it is a desirable thing to do but so far, the "powers that be" in Microsoft have not done this.