FontBold Property

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You can use the FontBold property to specify whether a font appears in a bold style in the following situations:

• When displaying or printing controls on forms and reports.
  
  
• When using the Print method on a report.

Setting

The FontBold property uses the following settings.

You can set the FontBold property only by using a macro or Visual Basic.

Remarks

To use the FontBold property on a report, first create a Print event procedure that prints the desired text.

A font's appearance on screen and in print may differ, depending on your computer and printer.

The FontWeight property, which is available in the property sheet for controls, can also be used to set the line width for a control's text. The FontBold property gives you a quick way to make text bold; the FontWeight property gives you finer control over the line width setting for text. The following table shows the relationship between these properties' settings.