Computer Learning Zone

Highlight Search Matches Inside Microsoft Access Text Boxes

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Conditional formatting can flag an entire field, but that is not much help when a long notes box contains several paragraphs. In this episode, Richard Rost shows how to highlight every occurrence of a search word or phrase inside a Microsoft Access text box without changing the original table data.

The discussion uses VBA, rich text controls, HTML-style formatting tags, and the Replace function…