Insert Stock Reply Text Into Note Fields

In this lesson, I'll show you how to create a table full of "stock replies" or AutoText that you can insert into your note fields in Microsoft Access. This works great for correspondence where you have specific replies you send often, or if you have specific text you are always copying and pasting or typing into notes fields (yeah, I know, they're called Long Text fields now. I'm Old School). Microsoft Access doesn't have an AutoText feature like Word does, but we can create something to do the job without a ton of work.

Leroy from Alpharetta, Georgia (a Gold Member) asks: I'm using your TechHelp customer database and I'm using the contacts form to track every time I interact with the customer, like you recommend. I have specific text that I use a lot, such as "sent customer a followup email," or "attempted to contact, no answer." Things like that. Is there a way I could just pick these items from a list and add them to the contact history with a single click instead of having to type them in all the time? I still want the ability to edit the text or add more stuff though.

Members

Members will see how to insert the text right at the location of the placement of the cursor. We will use the SelStart property to see where the cursor is located. This is often desired over just adding it to the end of the string. We will also see how to add merge fields like [FIRSTNAME] or [DATE] to the AutoText fields.

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