Rich text control

[Middlemarch]

I've been curious about rich text capabilty for some time but never learnt much about it until finding a tutorial on line.
This uses bound text boxes and presents a menu when you highlight something, to set attributes for for text that's already there.
Then the underlying table also reflects the changes.
But what if I wanted an unbound text box, populated in VBA with a choice of my colors, fonts and text. I assume I add the http codes (once I know what they are)


into the text box with the text? Is this correct and does Access have any tools for this?
Any info appreciated.

[Middlemarch]

Trying to see some results ... have Form with 2 textboxes.
Why does is one empty - is this because it's rich text is bad ? It was something I copied from a table, so may have a typo.
But more oddly, why does a click in lower text box copy in the contents of text box above it. There's no instruction to do this.

[isladogs]

Error in your code so expression y cannot be resolved.
Clicking in the textbox retrieves the value in memory. In this case, the value of x

To fix, fontcolor should be font color.

Whilst learning about rich text, you may find this utility useful: Rich Text Editor (isladogs.co.uk)

[Middlemarch]

Thank you Colin, just been reading that link. I'm starting from scratch, so a few basics first.
The click effect, that's not usual is it, or happens because of rich text? The partial highlighting also changes color when clicked.
The terms used like 'strong' etc, is there a list of them anywhere?

[isladogs]

I think its unlikely to happen with plain text unless you can create a situation where plain text entry also can't be resolved.
Unable to replicate the effect of the highlighting changing colour.

I usually use the rich text toolbar to apply formatting.
However an easy way to learn the different commands would be to display the rich text in a plain text control (or query field) as I did in my example app.
Rich text is a subset of HTML so you could try HTML Text Formatting (w3schools.com) Otherwise suggest you Google it

[Middlemarch]

Thank you Colin, I should be able to make some headway with that.