[AccessD] Disabling Ctrl-A

David Emerson newsgrps at dalyn.co.nz
Sun Apr 3 21:50:01 CDT 2005


AXP

One of my users has discovered that by pressing Ctrl-A this will select all 
records in a form.  Then he can copy, open up Excel and paste all the 
records into a spreadsheet.  However, because of the sensitive nature of 
the data, Management do not want the full database to be available this way.

I have found out how to disable Ctrl-A using autokeys so that all records 
cannot be selected.  I have also removed from my custom menu the option to 
Select all records.

There is still the problem of manually selecting all records with the 
mouse, then copying them to the clipboard.  I don't want to disable Ctrl-C 
because it is useful elsewhere in the programme.  Is there a way to check 
if records are selected (any number of records - not just all of them)?  If 
I could find out that, then if records were selected I could cancel out the 
copy, but if only text was selected I could alow the copy to proceed.

Regards

David Emerson
Dalyn Software Ltd
25 Cunliffe St, Churton Park
Wellington, New Zealand
Ph/Fax (04) 478-7456
Mobile 027-280-9348 




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