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edandiane

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I have some rectangles in my report, and some detail header text for those those rectangles (where people with sign and put in answer to a detail header question).
When I view the report in the Design View its great, and in the Report View it's fine.
But when I go to the Print Preview it disappears (also when I create the report). I did go to the Design View Home to make the rectangles and detail header text black in color, so that's not the problem.
HELP!
 

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Curious. Can you attach the db here?
 

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not sure what you mean...
 

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In the advanced reply area there's a Manage Attachments button. You can attach the db after zipping. Normally don't need it, but I can't think of why the objects would be visible in report view and not preview. There's no code running in the format events, is there?
 

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The advanced button is not available through any tabs when I am in my report design.
I have no idea what you mean when you say "You can attach the db after zipping".
Don't know where the format events is..... : \
I just striped the report of all the stuff that wouldn't show up, I sorted the data the way I needed it and used a pre-setup word document to print on.
In other words i put all the stuff in my word document and played with the output from Access to have the data line up with the lines on the report.
It was a cheating way to do it and I hated doing that, but I needed the report the next day.
I have no idea why it didn't work,....I'm so upset. I feel like I have to go through my book one page at a time to build one through a lesson, which seems so juvenile..... not happy!
Thanks anyway.....I will give up on that report and try again.
 
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In creating a new report, I am seeing some of the areas you mentioned. I am creating a new report and creating the headers I need carefully (not text boxes) and see if that was the problem. Thanks for your help anyway.
 

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The advanced button is on this forum, "Go Advanced" near the bottom. It allows you to attach a file to a post, much as you can attach an attachment to an email.
 

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