Specifications

Modifying properties conditionally at runtime
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The Properties view changes to show the properties that are common to all
selected controls.
2 On the Font page in the Properties view, click the button next to the
Escapement property.
3 Enter the number 450 in the Modify Expression dialog box and click OK.
The value entered for font escapement is in tenths of degrees, so the
number 450 means 45 degrees. You do not have to specify a condition.
Typically, you do not specify a condition for control rotation.
The rotation of the controls does not change in the Design view.
4 To see the change, close and reopen the Preview view.
Example 3: highlighting rows of data
The following report is an employee phone list for a company in
Massachusetts. Out-of-state (not in Massachusetts) employees are shown in
bold and preceded by two asterisks (**):
This report uses newspaper columns. To understand how to create this report
without highlighting data, see “Printing with newspaper-style columns” on
page 223.
In the Design view, the detail band includes four controls: the employee last
name, a comma, the employee first name, and the phone number: