entering data

i have created a form for teachers to enter student grades and attendance for report cards. In the "old" (non-Access) form the teachers were able to enter the single character grade and the cursor would automatically jump to the next field to enter attendance and the cursor would again automatically move on to the next student's grtade.

Can someone help me add this automatic movement feature to my form?
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dwbrown

the following assumes that your Grade field in the table is a Text data
type, and that you want to enter letters only (not A+, B-, etc):

open the form in design view. click on the control that's bound to the Grade
field, and press F4 - or click View, Code on the menu bar - to show the
Properties box. click the Data tab. on the InputMask line, type a capital L.
next, click on the Other tab. set AutoTab to Yes.
try it out. then, suggest you go back to each property, click on the line,
and press F1. Access Help will open to the appropriate topic, so you can
read up on how they work.

hth


"sryixx4" wrote in message
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i have created a form for teachers to enter student grades and attendance
for report cards. In the "old" (non-Access) form the teachers were able to
enter the single character grade and the cursor would automatically jump to
the next field to enter attendance and the cursor would again automatically
move on to the next student's grtade.

Can someone help me add this automatic movement feature to my form?
--
dwbrown