FontSize Property

You can use the FontSize property to specify the point size for text in the following situations:

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

Read/write Integer.

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

The FontSize property uses the following settings.

You can also set this property by clicking the Font Size box on the Formatting (Form/Report) toolbar.

You can set the default for this property by using a control's default control style or the DefaultControl method in Visual Basic.

For reports, you can set this property only in an event procedure or in a macro specified by the OnPrint event property setting.

In Visual Basic, you set the FontSize property by using a numeric expression equal to the desired size of the font. The setting for the FontSize property can be between 1 and 127, inclusive.

Example

The following example uses the Print method to display text on a report named Report1. It uses the TextWidth and TextHeight methods to center the text vertically and horizontally.

Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, _
        FormatCount As Integer)
    Dim rpt as Report
    Dim strMessage As String
    Dim intHorSize As Integer, intVerSize As Integer

    Set rpt = Me
    strMessage = "DisplayMessage"
    With rpt
        'Set scale to pixels, and set FontName and
        'FontSize properties.
        .ScaleMode = 3
        .FontName = "Courier"
        .FontSize = 24
    End With
    ' Horizontal width.
    intHorSize = Rpt.TextWidth(strMessage)
    ' Vertical height.
    intVerSize = Rpt.TextHeight(strMessage)
    ' Calculate location of text to be displayed.
    Rpt.CurrentX = (Rpt.ScaleWidth/2) - (intHorSize/2)
    Rpt.CurrentY = (Rpt.ScaleHeight/2) - (intVerSize/2)
    ' Print text on Report object.
    Rpt.Print strMessage
End Sub