MostlyFrustrated
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I'm designing an accdb in Access 2010 designed to show contact information for individuals within departments. Most fields are short, such as dept number, name, phone number, email address, etc., but the first record in the department may also have a "special notes" field populated that may be much longer, and is applicable to the entire department, not just that individual. I'd like the notes text box to be able to expand vertically (and have set Can Grow = Yes in properties), but to do it without also pushing the starting point of the next record further down the page. In other words, the text box in the Record 1 might need to vertically span multiple records, but not if the next record is in a new department number.
See the attached PDF for a visual representation that is probably easier to understand. My report doesn't actually have the colors you see, but each different color represents a different record.
I thought I could get there by defining two subreports--one for the contact info, one for the notes--and placing them side by side, but then the note associated itself with every record and all records showed it. Maybe I didn't have the subreports linked correctly somehow, but I don't know how to do that. I also thought I could get my intended result by making a multicolumn report, but Access only supports equal width columns, not one wide and one narrow.
Anyone have any experience with this? I would greatly appreciate your insight and technique.
See the attached PDF for a visual representation that is probably easier to understand. My report doesn't actually have the colors you see, but each different color represents a different record.
I thought I could get there by defining two subreports--one for the contact info, one for the notes--and placing them side by side, but then the note associated itself with every record and all records showed it. Maybe I didn't have the subreports linked correctly somehow, but I don't know how to do that. I also thought I could get my intended result by making a multicolumn report, but Access only supports equal width columns, not one wide and one narrow.
Anyone have any experience with this? I would greatly appreciate your insight and technique.