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Hi,

I have a subform Risk linked to a form Category, in a database called RiskAnalysis. I am using Access 2003. In the subform (which is in datasheet view as the user who will be using this wants it in that view), there are quite a few fields (17 in total), and as you can imagine, trying to fit them onto one view (ie: not scrolling across) is quite impossible with seeing the data aswell.

What I would like is when the user clicks/tabs/whatever to the next field, then a new window appears, which the user can type into and press OK (or something) at the end, and then that information is then displayed in the cell the user was originally in. I want this as many of the cells will contain a lot of data in.

Also, if this is done through VBA code somehow, then I don't want this on every field, just on certain fields.

Many thanks,

Andrew
Nov 29 '07 #1
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You will have to use VBA for this. When the control loses, or gains focus, just use an inputbox to populate the field.

Although why you would want to do this is beyond me. How does this save screen space unless you just make the control width really small.
Dec 10 '07 #2

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