Text selection in a text box

[Alaashamas]

Dear all , am facing a problem in Access 2003 , it may be easy but i couldnt find a solution to it , in a form when you move from one control to another the text in a text box is selected by default , is there a way to avoid the text selection when the text box get the focus?

[Killer42]

Dear all , am facing a problem in Access 2003 , it may be easy but i couldnt find a solution to it , in a form when you move from one control to another the text in a text box is selected by default , is there a way to avoid the text selection when the text box get the focus?

This is from VB6, but may work in Access too.
In the Text1.GotFocus event...

Text1.SelLength = 0 

[Alaashamas]

this must be done for each text box or combobox in the program is there any other setting that can be done to avoid righting this for each control , the problem is that i have a very large program that was programed using Access 97 , the higlighting property wasnt valid i guess but now i upgrade the program to access 2003 and the higlighting property is causing troubles for the users , is there any global property or setting to avoid this.

[Killer42]

this must be done for each text box or combobox in the program is there any other setting that can be done to avoid righting this for each control , the problem is that i have a very large program that was programed using Access 97 , the higlighting property wasnt valid i guess but now i upgrade the program to access 2003 and the higlighting property is causing troubles for the users , is there any global property or setting to avoid this.

I'm using Access 2000 at home, but I just found an option under the Keyboard tab, Behavior entering field - settings are:

• Select entire field
• Go to start of field
• Go to end of field

This sounds like what you're after, if you can find it in Access 2003.

[Alaashamas]

yes this work thanks a lot , you are the one
Best regards