Edit field

[Garry Jones]

When I activate a field in a form it is highlighted and at first click
the users loses the previous entry. Sometimes the user just wants to
correct a spelling mistake. Any simple way of getting fields to open
with the cursor at postion 1 and the previous entry not highlighted?

Garry Jones
Sweden

 

[tina]

add the following code to the form's Open event procedure, as

Application.SetOption "Behavior Entering Field", 1

and the following code to the form's Close event procedure, as

Application.SetOption "Behavior Entering Field", 0

the first action sets the behavior for the whole database (possibly for all
other dbs opened on that PC, as well - i didn't test it). so the second
action sets the behavior back to the default when the form is closed.

if you don't know how to add an event procedure to a form, see "Create a VBA
event procedure" at http://home.att.net/~california.db/instructions.html for
illustrated instructions.

hth

 

[John Spencer]

If you want to do this for only one control, you can use the Got Focus Event
to modify the behavior for that control. For instance, with a control named
fText

Private Sub fText_GotFocus()
Me.fText.SelLength =0
Me.fText.SelStart=0
End Sub