Arrow Key Navigation & Long Text Boxes in Cont Forms

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to handle navigation arrow keys in long text boxes on continuous forms. We'll address a specific scenario where pressing arrow keys in a multi-line text box moves to another record instead of navigating within the text.

Dylan from Lombard, Illinois (a Platinum Member) asks: I've been using the technique you demonstrated in the Extended Cut of the "Move Up Down Using Keyboard" TechHelp video to move the focus in a continuous form using the arrow keys, and it works great. However, I have a text box in the footer where I display notes for the customer. If the note is multi-line and I click in that text box, using the arrow keys moves me to the previous or next record, which is not what I want. Is there a way to tell Access not to process the arrow keys if I'm in that specific field?

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Prerequisites

• Move Up Down Using Keyboard
• Intro to VBA

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