Re: Text without formatting (OS 9.1)
Re: Text without formatting (OS 9.1)
- Subject: Re: Text without formatting (OS 9.1)
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:19:34 -0500
On 2/28/01, John McElwain commented on "Re: Text without formatting (OS 9.1)":
I am using FM 4.0. I don't understand why it would work in FM 5 but not FM
4. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. If you use a try statement --
Try
--something which will fail
on error errMsg
end try
The text returned is formatted as black 12 pt geneva. For my FM layout, I
need white Helvetica 10 pt font. Prior to the improved unicode capabilities
of AS under OS 9.1, the trick below would put unformatted text into the FM
cell. But now (9.1 AS 1.5.5), the text is formatted (black 12 pt geneva),
and the error messages does not appear as I would like on my layout.
I'm coming in late here, so maybe I've missed something, but...
A calculated field (in FMP) will strip formatting. Create a
calculated field which equals the field which contains the text
returned. Replace the current field with the calc field (on the
layout) and then format the calc field as desired.
--
Later,
Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA