Microsoft KB Archive/139306

= ACC: How to Negate CTRL+ENTER in a Text Box or Memo Control =

Article ID: 139306

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q139306



Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Access, a user can insert a carriage return/line feed into a bound text box by pressing CTRL+ENTER. This key combination is a Windows shortcut recognized by all Microsoft Office products, including Microsoft Access. However, in certain situations, you may want to prevent the user from inserting a carriage return/line feed into a given text box. This article demonstrates a user-defined Sub procedure that you can use to intercept these keystrokes within a given text box.

This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic for Applications and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications, please refer to your version of the "Building Applications with Microsoft Access" manual.

NOTE: Visual Basic for Applications is called Access Basic in Microsoft Access version 2.0. For more information about Access Basic, please refer to the "Building Applications" manual.



MORE INFORMATION
When a user presses CTRL+ENTER from within a bound text box on a form, a Windows shortcut results. The result is sent directly to the operating system and cannot be suppressed by Microsoft Access or any other program running under Windows.

To intercept the carriage return/line feed effect of these keystrokes, you can insert the following event procedure on the KeyDown event of the text box: Sub Text1_KeyDown (keycode As Integer, shift As Integer) Dim shiftdown As Variant shiftdown = (shift And ctrl_mask) If shiftdown And (keycode = 13) Then SendKeys "{BS}" End Sub

