Text Highlighted in Text Box when gets Focus

[Mossi]

I have a form with a Tab Control containing 3 tabs. On
each tab there is just one Text Box. As I select each
tab, all of the text in the Text Box becomes
highlighted. This is very dangerous as pressing any key
deletes the text.

Is there a way of switching this 'feature' off?

Thanks guys...

Ian

 

[fredg]

I have a form with a Tab Control containing 3 tabs. On
each tab there is just one Text Box. As I select each
tab, all of the text in the Text Box becomes
highlighted. This is very dangerous as pressing any key
deletes the text.

Is there a way of switching this 'feature' off?

Thanks guys...

Ian

Set the control's SelStart property.

Code each control's Enter event:
to the end of the data ...
Me![ControlName].SelStart = len(Me![ControlName])
or
to the beginning ...
Me![ControlName].SelStart = 0

 

[Guest]

Excellent, thanks Bill, it worked a treat. I added the NZ
() function to cater for blank fileds.

Me![ControlName].SelStart = Nz(len(Me![ControlName]))

Thanks again.

Ian

-----Original Message-----

I have a form with a Tab Control containing 3 tabs. On
each tab there is just one Text Box. As I select each
tab, all of the text in the Text Box becomes
highlighted. This is very dangerous as pressing any key
deletes the text.

Is there a way of switching this 'feature' off?

Thanks guys...

Ian

Set the control's SelStart property.

Code each control's Enter event:
to the end of the data ...
Me![ControlName].SelStart = len(Me![ControlName])
or
to the beginning ...
Me![ControlName].SelStart = 0
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