There is something occurring in my db that is puzzling.

I have a text field that appears on several layouts. Simple text field, not global. Some of these layouts print in B&W and some print in color. On the B&W layouts, when I change the Text in this field to B&W, the text in the same field on the color layouts changes to a different color than the original assigned color. On other color layouts, this text changes to Lt Grey.

If I then go to a color layout and change the text to its original assigned color, it appears in the correct color on the all color layouts AND also in color on the B&W layouts.

Any suggestions or work arounds???

Thanks,

Gary

Basically, if you don't specifically set the format (font, size, color, bold/italic/underline) of the text that you enter, it will use the default field format that you setup in the layout. Once a user changes the format (ie, color) it becomes part of the field's data and it overrides the layout format. So, you can't have the user just change it in one layout without it affecting all layouts. I'm not aware of any workarounds.

Workaround for the above (my) problem

A workaround for my post above.

On the Layouts where I want the field to print in B&W, the field is depicted on the B&W layout as a Calc field.

Example of the Calc: "Desired B&W" field = the Colored field. The "Desired B&W" field Text is then formated as Black (on the white background). So simple...??

Gary