Well, it seems that I’m back to the basics… I just want to draw a line, but under the text in my section. I know how to draw a line [:D], but this line seems to be centered in a “virtual rectangle”. My section has only one line of text (without blank below), so it seems that the only thing I could do with the shape tool is to draw a line in the middle of my text!!! [:(!]
I’m afraid the nasty truth is that the only solutions are ‘messy’ ones - such as setting the report properties to let you increment the section size by a tiny bit and putting a very thin shape underneath… You’d think putting a VertAlign property on the HorzLine shape would be easy enough… Just wait until your client wants the line hidden/shown dynamically…
David, you have the following options: 1) Draw your line, then edit its properties and set the “Height” property to say, 100. The rectangle containing the line will then be much smaller and you can place it closer to your text. 2) If all you need is to underline the text instead of drawing a line across the entire page, you can use the “FontUnderline” property of the text box [:D]
Cool, The “Height” property works fine and does the job. Thanks [:D][:D] I was not very comfortable with the idea of explaining to my boss why it would take more than 4 hours to put some simple lines in a report! [xx(]
Gosh, I too have spent many hours on tasks that seemed trivial at first glance - but 4 hours for drawing a few lines beats everything [:p] Glad the “Height” property did the trick [8D]