MS Access 2003 prevent select all text on focus

MS Access 2003 has to be used, unfortunately.

I need to add a button to do some stuff on selected text in a Text control. 开发者_如何学CThe problem is that I cannot get the Text.SelStart, or any other property unless it has focus. When I do Text.SetFocus, all the text is automatically selected.

Is there any workaround?

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Not sure how 2003 works, but in Access 2010 go to File/Options/Client Settings/ under the Editing heading, Behavior entering field, select "Go to start of field" or "Go to end of field"...worked like a charm for me.

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The only workaround I found is to bind the action to a key press event on the control. Since the control does have focus, any operation can be done.

Also note that you should probably change the control Value, not Text property.

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That is a Access Setting, I don't know if you can change it programmatically. I only have german Access so I'll try to translate the menu to english:

go to Tools -> Options in the menu bar.

On the Keyboard tab, there is a box on the right Behavior entering field.

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