Using & to underline letters on tabs doesn't seem to work correctly?

[scs]

I have built a customer form with several tabs. For the tab captions I use
for example, &Payments. This way a user can just type Alt-P to quickly get
to customer payments tab. I have noticed that this doesn't work
consistenlty. When I type Alt-P the system just sounds a warning and
doesn't go to the tab? Any suggestions on using the & to navigate with?
Some of the keyboard shortcuts work fine. Others don't. Can anyone tell me
what might cause this and the solution?

Thanks very much,
Steve

 

[Guest]

Hi scs - some of them are already assigned to do something, go to your help
screen and look up keyboard acceleraters which will tell you which are
already used. Yrs - Dika

 

[scs]

Thank you. You know I just don't get it. If I underline a letter like "F"
on a button that says Find, it works even though clearly that is the
shortcut for the File menu. If I have underline P on the Payments tab it
doesn't work, yet I see no obvious conflict? I looked in help but I didn't
see any alt-letter combinations listed?

 

[Guest]

That is very odd. Have you tried Alt P with the form in Design Mode to see
what happens. Also look in your macros in case you have an Autokeys Macro
that has set Atl P to something. The other thing I do sometimes is to hit the
wrong combination -Ctrl rather than Alt.
In Help look up 'Keyboard Shortcuts' in the Answer Wizard. I did have a
quick scan and did not find Alt P but at least you will see which ones might
be a problem.
Have a good weekend - yrs Dika

 

[Mike Labosh]

I have built a customer form with several tabs. For the tab captions I use

for example, &Payments. This way a user can just type Alt-P to quickly get
to customer payments tab. I have noticed that this doesn't work
consistenlty. When I type Alt-P the system just sounds a warning and
doesn't go to the tab? Any suggestions on using the & to navigate with?
Some of the keyboard shortcuts work fine. Others don't. Can anyone tell
me what might cause this and the solution?

Switching tabs changes the focus to some item on the newly selected tab, and
checks the validation rule of the control that has the focus before the tab
switch. For example, you could have a control on tab 1 whose Validation
Rule says <> "", type something in it, backspace back over it and then press
your ALT+P hotkey to switch tabs, and Windows makes a noise. In my case, I
also got a message box.

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