[AccessD] How to turn off auto-correct off?

Francisco Tapia fhtapia at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 10:53:13 CDT 2005


Sturat,
Thanks for the update, I've never used that field :), man you do learn
something new all the time especially on a product like 'good ol access' :P

On 10/17/05, stuart at lexacorp.com.pg <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
>
> On 17 Oct 2005 at 19:37, Francisco Tapia wrote:
>
> > i ran into a problem because of the default behaviour in access 2000. We
> > have company id codes and one of these companies codes is "HSA", but
> when
> > users key this information in, the auto correct fixes the word to HAS.
> > That's all fine and dandy for notes fields but in this case it's really
> not
> > acceptable. How can I programatically turn this option off in access? I
> know
> > I can run through the option and remove the entry in the auto-correct
> menu
> > but that's not a really feasable option since I have 90+ users
> >
>
> Turn it off for the controls that you don't want it on:
> In the Properties sheet for textboxes, comboboxes etc, under the "Other"
> tab is a
> setting "AllowAutocorrect"
>
> To turn it off for all controls in the application:
> Run a loop through every control on form and if it's a textbox or combobox
> set the
> control's AllowAutoCorrect property to false
>
>
>
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