"Select All" in textbox on a form

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DaveF

I have a text box on a form that is bound to a memo datatype field.

I have 2 simple problems associated with this textbox:

1. I cannot "select all" inside the textbox. When the textbox has focus
(i.e., my cursor is inside the textbox) and I press CTRL+A, none of the text
is selected. How can I quickly select the contents of this textbox?

2. Text copied from notepad and pasted into this textbox displays certain
non-text ANSI characters as placeholders for tabs. Is it possible to
surpress this display? I want to keep my tabs if I need to copy from Access
and paste it back out into notepad. However, I also want the field to be
more readable from the form. Is there a work around?

Thanks
Dave
 
I'm not sure about #2. For #1, Ctrl+A selects all records, not all the text
in a control. You can place the cursor at the front of the text and type
Ctrl+Shift+End to select all of the text at once, or to do this the other
way, place the cursor at the end and type Ctrl+Shift+Home.
 
Thanks Wayne

Wayne Morgan said:
I'm not sure about #2. For #1, Ctrl+A selects all records, not all the text
in a control. You can place the cursor at the front of the text and type
Ctrl+Shift+End to select all of the text at once, or to do this the other
way, place the cursor at the end and type Ctrl+Shift+Home.
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