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Asked: 2026-06-11T19:26:44+00:00

In an MS-Access RichTextBox on a Report, I want to make a selection of

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In an MS-Access RichTextBox on a Report, I want to make a selection of the text bold.

I found this post on a forum which explains how to do this in VB6. I tried the same in MS-Access, both with a normal Access textbox with the Text Format property set to Rich Text and a Microsoft Forms 2.0 TextBox added via the ActiveX Controls dialogue box, neither works.

I know VBA is based heavily on VB6 so my logic is if it can be done in VB6, I should be able to do it in Access.

Am I right? Is it possible to set a selection of text to bold inside a RichTextBox on MS-Access?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You do not mention the version of Access, for 2007 (AFAIK) and 2010, you can create a textbox and set the Text Format on the data tab to Rich Text. You can then set the Control Source to:

    ="The quick <b>brown</b> fox"

    In table design, the memo data type has a Rich Text option.

    From Rich formatted text that includes data from fields

    For a number of reasons the rich text control doesn’t support the
    full range of HTML but rather a limited subset of HTML focused around
    formatting text. If you stick to the list of HTML tags and attributes
    below you should be safe:

    <font face="Arial Black" size=3 color="#A5A5A5" style="Background-Color:#FFFF00"> 
<strong> 
<em> 
<u> 
<br> 
<div align=right dir=RTL> 
<blockquote> 
<ol> and <li> for number 
<ul> and <li> for bulleted lists
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