Is it possible to format parts of calc. fields?

[DanBrill]

Hi,

I'm creating a db of books. I have fields for Author, Title, and Publisher. I want to join these together with a single calculated field to make a citation, such as:

Author&". "&Title&". "&Publisher&"."

with the result:

Smith, Joe. Book of Knowledge. Everything Press.

Is there any way that I can italicize the Title and leave the rest in regular type?

I thought of just placing the three fields next to each other and italicizing the Title field. But since I don't know how long the Author field will be, it won't look like a single entry. I could use sliding fields for printing, but there is no way to get the effect of sliding in Browse mode, is there?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

[Lee Smith]

Hi Dan,

Try using Merge fields on your layout. You can then apply individual formatting to the merge fields.

HTH

Lee

[Lougee]

Lee,

What if your calculation is of the sort: -- if (function (fieldA), result1, result2) and you'd like result1 to be bold but result 2 to be plain text? You can't use merge functions here (or can you???)

Abbe

[Razumovsky]

Try a combination of your original idea and Lee's

I thought of just placing the three fields next to each other and italicizing the Title field.

Try using Merge fields on your layout. You can then apply individual formatting to the merge fields.

<<Author>> , <<Title>>. <<Publisher>>

-Raz