Access 2003 do not support rich text control anymore. You can either use
other control - FMS Memo (www.fmsinc.com)
or non-control solution (www,lebans.com)

Here's a solution that does the trick for me:

Internet Explorer defines a security policy for this RichTextBox ActiveX
control in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{3B7C8860-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}
There's a DWORD property called "Compatibility Flags" which is probably set
to 0x400 on your machine.  This value means that applications such as MS
Access should simply fail to load this ActiveX control without prompting
you. Change this value to 0, delete and re-insert the RTF control in your
form...

Another alternative -that I haven't tried yet- is to create a wrapper object
around the RichTextBox control. It will have a different CLSID, so the
security settings described in the key above will not apply, in which case
you will again be prompted to say whether you want to use the control or
not.  The benefit of this approach is that you don't need to mess with the
registry.  The detrement is that you need to define a new wrapper class.

-- Renee

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