Microsoft 365 and Office | Access | For home | Windows
A family of Microsoft relational database management systems designed for ease of use.
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Couldn't you set Allow Deletions to false in Form properties?
CTRL + minus (or dash)
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Anonymous
Hi all,
In continuous form view, if the user presses Ctrl + the minus key, Access offers to delete the active record.
Is there a way to disable this "feature"?
Regards - Dave.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Access | For home | Windows
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Anonymous
2017-12-19T01:36:30+00:00 Hi Tom. Yes! Didn't know that was there. Live and learn.
Regards - Dave.
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Anonymous
2017-12-18T13:45:39+00:00 Hi,
search for Access Autokeys to unable Keys As Alt + x, Ctrl + x ....
Mimmo
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Anonymous
2017-12-18T12:09:01+00:00 Sorry Ciao. I googled 'autokeys macros', but didn't find anything I could understand, or that seemed relevant. What am I missing?
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Anonymous
2017-12-18T08:08:04+00:00 Hi,
look at autokeys macros.
Ciao Mimmo