Unwanted hilight of text

[JohnM]

Where fields contain text, I've noticed that when they are first opened in a
form, all the text is hilighted. How do I avoid this? ... it's not
desperately important, but irritating! (I think it may be only memo fields)

[DFS]

JohnM wrote:

Where fields contain text, I've noticed that when they are first
opened in a form, all the text is hilighted. How do I avoid this? ...
it's not desperately important, but irritating! (I think it may be
only memo fields)

You can add this to the OnEnter event of the field:

'MOVE CURSOR TO END
If Trim(fieldName) <> "" Then
fieldName.SelStart = Len(fieldName)
End If

'MOVE CURSOR TO BEGINNING
If Trim(fieldName) <> "" Then
fieldName.SelStart = 0
End If

[RoyVidar]

JohnM wrote in message <di*******************@news.demon.co.uk> :

Where fields contain text, I've noticed that when they are first opened in a
form, all the text is hilighted. How do I avoid this? ... it's not
desperately important, but irritating! (I think it may be only memo fields)

In Tools | Options - the keyboard tab, there are some selections for
behaviour entering field. You can toggle that to make general changes
of this behaviour.

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Roy-Vidar