> Come one guys how about a rich text or HTML text box in RS2005, this is a
> glaring omission. I know there are some workarounds, but for some items
> this
> is just necessary. How hard can this be?
>
> Lets consider an example. I have a report that I send out that is really
> quite complex. To help understand the report I have a page of
> documentation
> built right into the report. Only problem is it needs some text in bold,
> some in color, other not, tables, etc. Well, lets try some workarounds.
> First, I tried linking to an HTML document, but this is distributed all
> over
> the world via e-mail and is expected to be able to be read offline.
> Next, I
> have tried using a combination of all the toolbox items to make part of
> the
> "report" that looks like my documentation but that didn't work out too
> well
> as its a real pain to try to make formatted text out of many independently
> formatted textboxes, tables, etc. The last thing I have been trying is to
> take my HTML page and run it through a HTML to image conversion and then
> insert the image into the report. This works for online browsing, etc,
> but
> when I save the report off to excel I get hit with a max column height of
> 409. This I get about 3/4 of my image.
>
> Anyway, I'm just venting but please, even given the late date, please
> consider adding a rich text or html text box to RS 2005.
>
> Thanks,