Stop highlighting on form load?

[GLese]

Okay, I'm not even sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway. Purely an aesthetic thing, but I'd like to make my form stop highlighting a field when it loads.

This form loads after a user double clicks on a particular record in a continuous form so they can edit the QC Disposition block. All of my boxes in this form are locked, no edit, etc. except the QC Disposition.

What do I need to change so that the Product name doesn't highlight like it is in the shown example?

 

[Minty]

Set the tab stop to No for all controls except the two buttons.

Another trick is to force focus on form load event to one of the buttons (probably the Exit button).

 

[GLese]

Set the tab stop to No for all controls except the two buttons.

Another trick is to force focus on form load event to one of the buttons (probably the Exit button).

Setting the tab stop worked great. Is there a simple way to change the color of the highlighting? I found a thread on here about forcing focus and highlighting using VBA, but if there's a simple button I can click that would be wonderful

 

[Minty]

Not easily - I seem to remember it's automatically determined by reversing the font and background colour?

 

[isladogs]

Hi Minty
Your memory is correct. The highlight uses the opposite or complimentary colours. So black becomes white, red becomes cyan etc

 

[GLese]

Not easily - I seem to remember it's automatically determined by reversing the font and background colour?

Lol well if it's not super easy it's not important enough to find the workaround, just aesthetics.

Thanks for your help Minty!

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