help with forms...

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jsmith

How do I get a form to open up in full screen?

As you are tabbing through the form items, how can I keep the cursor focus
in the center of my screen? Or the upper left corner? Anywhere that I don't
lose it...I want it to follow through the form but keep where I am at in view
at all times.

Thanks!
JS
 
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Douglas J Steele

To open a form in full screen, put DoCmd.Maximize in its Load event.

If you're tabbing through form items, the cursor is going to be in whatever
field you're currently in. You can't tab and have the cursor somewhere else!
 
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jsmith

Thanks Doug,

Yes, the cursor does stay where I am tabbing, but what I want is for the
entire field to display where my cursor is: I could be on the checkbox of a
field I am currently entering, but the field name is partially cut off
because of it's placement on my page (far right). So to see the entire field
name, I have to physically move the slide bar to get the field in my view.
This will be a pain when you are entering data and will take a lot more time
if you have to use the mouse to move a slide bar rather than just tab through
a page. Does this make more sense? And is it even possible? My form is
rather large because I made it to match a 3 page paper form we currently use.

Thanks for your help.
JSMITH
 
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Douglas J. Steele

The only think that comes to mind is to put logic in the GotFocus event of
some (or all) of the controls to control it. Not 100% sure if it's possible,
mind you.
 
J

jsmith

Thanks! I'll try it.

JSMITH

Douglas J. Steele said:
The only think that comes to mind is to put logic in the GotFocus event of
some (or all) of the controls to control it. Not 100% sure if it's possible,
mind you.
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