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Quote pinakeep Replybullet Topic: Selective Font Color Formatting
    Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 1:37am
Hi,
 
Following lines get printed in a report in the mentioned format. I want to change the font color of the "^" symbol to something different. how do i do it through formula? the number of lines and ^ symbols gets generated dynamically so it can be multiple lines for different cases. 
 
Line1
^
Line2
^
Line3
^
Line4
 
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Quote lockwelle Replybullet Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 3:25am
you can change the value of cell, but not of character in a cell.
for a cell, right click the cell, select format the cell or properties, go to the font tab select the x-1 by the color. From there regular CR formula writing takes over and the valid options are listed for you.
 
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Quote jkwrpc Replybullet Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:23am
I believe you add an if then statement for the color formula that lockwelle mentioned, and you can use it to color specific characters is have the the ascii code for it.
 
If would go something like this...
 
If Char(32) then crRed else crblack;
 
I have used this quite a bit to set the color of checkmarks and other special characters in the WingDings fonts. If you have Brian's book you will find it discussed there as well.
 
I always get the syntax wrong  on the ascii character code but feel free to look in the help file. Just know that this is the color the character will be, so if you want an 'a' to be red in that text object or field all 'a's will red. You would need alot more logic to control what is happening if that is what you want.
 
Hope this helps.
 
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Quote pacuccaro Replybullet Posted: 16 Sep 2011 at 6:26am
I think I understand your comments and have tried it and can get it to work for my issue however when I export the crystal report to excel I lose the font - is there a way to keep the special font in excel
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Quote CircleD Replybullet Posted: 16 Sep 2011 at 10:55am
Only if the font is in the Excel folder as well.
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Quote pacuccaro Replybullet Posted: 19 Sep 2011 at 2:50am
thanks but what I found was that if you export by using page it works but record format you lose the font - i just have to fix everything so i can use page instead of record when i export - thanks again for your help
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