Highlighting Text in Field

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Good day,

How do I stop text from being highlighted in an access form field?

I would like to set it up so that when I press tab to move into the field it
brings me to the beginning of the field without highlighting any text already
in the field.

Hopefully that explains it ok.
 
Awesome, that is terrific and this will probably work for us.

Is by chance a way to make only one field do this rather than everything in
the database?

Paul
 
Yes, use code in the "on enter" event to set the position of the cursor.
Not sure of the exact syntax, but I have done it before. Do a search, it is
out here pretty often.
 
That's great guys, thanks very much. I've learned three new ways of making
this work and that is terrific.

Thank you!
Paul
 
I've tried this and it seemed to work, but it doesn't always work for me. The
control in question ( Call Notes) gets focus OnCurrent of the form. If I am
tabbing thru the form (because there are previous fields data entry users
fill in) and enter that control it works or if I use the navigation arrows to
go to the next form hence 'Call Notes' it works but if I go to the next form
via tabbing it doesn't work and still highlights the previously entered text
so that if the user hits the space bar the text is lost. Any ideas? I have
tried it with GotFocus and Enter, neither work.

Private Sub Call_Notes_Enter()
With Me.Call_Notes
.SetFocus
.SelLength = 1
.SelStart = Len(.Text)
End With
End Sub

Thanks, Kristine
 
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