Hi Folks,

For some reason, even though I have Access 2010 (from Microsoft Office Professional 2010), I cannot click on a field in Form Design's Table/Field list and then shift-click another field (to include all the fields in between) so as to be able to drag several fields at once to my form. I have many years of working with 'Shift, Shift-Click' (contiguous selection) and 'Shift, Ctrl-Click' (non-contiguous selection) so I know I am doing it right. BUT in this case, it just goes directly to the field I shift-clicked and selects only that one.

Another thing: I have noticed that sometimes I can select a group of boxes by just touching each of them, and then at another time I have to completely enclose all desired boxes in order to select them.

What could be wrong with my application? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program but it doesn't seem to help. Any thoughts on this?

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Reply from Richard Rost:

I've noticed sometimes that the SHIFT-click or CTRL-click tricks only seem to work once you've already added at least one control to the form. I think this may be a BUG in Access. Give it a try. Add ONE field, and then try to add more fields using the SHIFT-click method.

As far as selecting controls goes, I've never encountered that problem. Just touching the controls has always worked for me. Other applications (like CorelDraw) force you to completely enclose the objects.