Text highlighting

[GSevensM]

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the default way a field is selected in a form so that it doesn't highlight all the text when you tab?

I have the standard black text on a white background but when the whole field is highlighted it looks ugly and I think is quite difficult to read until you click into it.

 

[Mile-O]

Look into the SelStart property of, say, your textbox.

 

[GSevensM]

No way to do it without having to resort to VBA (which I know very little about!) then! I'll have a play around and see what I can do. Cheers!

 

[spikepl]

Not quite.

In database properties ->client setting you can specify Behavior entering field: if you want the entire field selected or the cursor should sit in the first or last position.

Note that there is a functional benefit to leaving it as is. Which presumably is the reason why this is the default behaviour.