Microsoft KB Archive/96462

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INF: Misleading Documentation for Cancel Property
'Article ID: Q96462

Creation Date: 17-MAR-1993

Revision Date: 19-SEP-1996' The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Access version 1.0

SUMMARY

The documentation for the Cancel property, as well as for the term &quot;Cancel,&quot; is misleading. It implies that the purpose of the Cancel property is to allow you to select a Yes button to enable Cancel and thus undo the current record (just as if you chose the Undo Current Record command from the Edit menu).

This is not true; the Cancel property actually plays a much smaller role.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Access version 1.0, the Help topic for &quot;Cancel Property&quot; states:

Use the Cancel property to give the user the option of canceling uncommitted changes and returning the form to its previous state. The Microsoft Access &quot;Language Reference&quot; manuals for versions 1.0 and 1.1 contain the same misleading wording on page 59. NOTE: The help topic was corrected for version 1.1.

The actual purpose of the Cancel property is to execute the Cancel button's OnPush property when you press the ESC key from anywhere on the form.
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