stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Oct 17 22:22:56 CDT 2005
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