PRB: Text Labels Do Not Float with Memo Fields in a Report

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When text labels are placed next to memo fields in a report, the text label does not float with the memo field it is placed next to.

RESOLUTION

Place a floating invisible horizontal line between the two lines of text and fields. See steps 9-11 of the "Steps to Reproduce Behavior" section of this article.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this behavior and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Open the TESTDATA database in the Visual FoxPro SAMPLES\DATA directory.

2. On the File menu, click New. Select the Report option, and then click the New File button.

3. On the Report menu, click Quick Report. In the Open dialog box, select the Employee table from the list of tables in the TestData database. Click OK.

4. In the Quick Report dialog box, click the second Field Layout choice to place the fields vertically on the report. Click the Fields button to bring up the Field Picker dialog box. In the All Fields list, scroll down to find the Notes field, and double-click it to move it to the Selected Fields list. Then click OK in the Field Picker dialog box. Click OK in the Quick Report dialog box.

5. Click Notes field box to select it. Click and drag the right handle on the field to stretch the size out to about four inches.

6. Double-click the gray bar for the Detail band. Change the height to 0.5 and choose OK.

7. Hold down the SHIFT key, and click the Notes label and the Notes field to select both objects. On the Edit menu, click Copy. Then on the Edit menu, click Paste to paste a copy of the label and field. Use the mouse or arrow keys to move the new objects below the original objects, so that they are not overlapping.

8. On the View menu, click Preview. Notice that the second Notes label did not float to be placed next to the second copy of the memo field. Press the ESC key to close the preview and go back to the Report Designer.

9. Use the Line tool on the Report Controls toolbar to draw a horizontal line separating the two lines of labels and fields as the diagram below indicates. If the Report Controls toolbar is not visible, select it from the View menu.

      text             memo
      ---------------------
      text             memo
   
   

10. Double-click the newly drawn line. Select Float in the Object

        Position portion of the Rectangle/Line dialog box, and click OK.
    

11. Select the Background Color button on the Color Palette toolbar. Then

        select the White button. This will make the line invisible. If the
        Color Palette toolbar is not visible, select it from the View menu.
    

12. On the View menu, click Preview. Note that the second Notes text

        field is placed next to the first line of the second copy of the memo
        field.