ms access 2003 - Text boxes on a form: not jumping to any text box

Question

Ok so I add all these text boxes on an unbound form, and everytime you open a form, it sort of jumps to the first text box so you can enter some information into it.

How do I get rid of that, because I do not want it to auto jump to the first text box when the form opens...i do not want it to jump to any text box when the form open at all.

thanks

Answer 1

You will have to decide where you do want it to go, because it has to go somewhere. You can control where will tab order, set focus, and autotab.

I have just checked, and the best thing to do is to set the textboxes Enabled property to No and the Locked property to Yes.

Answer 2

The default behavior is of course for the cursor to move into the first control that you’ve set up in the tab order.

Assuming you still want some sensible tab order in the form, then place a zero length text box in the forms headder. Remove the tab stop setting (other tab in property sheet). You might as well set this box transparent also.

Then in the forms on-load event, simply go:

  Me.NameOfTextBoxinFormsHedaing.SetFocus

Answer 3

If I read your question correctly it seems that you do not want any of your textboxes on the form to have the focus on opening the form.

What you need to do in this instance is to create a new unbound textbox on your form, and then make this unbound the first item in the form's tab order. Then resize the unbound textbox to 0 height and 0 width, making it invisible.