[mso] Re: How to turn off auto-complete in Access?

  • From: Pruscoe@xxxxxxx
  • To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:49:58 -0500 (EST)

Excel will do that, but I haven't seen it in Access.
 
 
In a message dated 2/18/2013 11:23:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
p.stris@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I have  kind of the opposite problem but might have the same solution.
Somewhere  along the way I lost the autofill for text. When I begin to enter
text in a  field, it would offer to fill with text from a previous entry if
it started  the same.  This was very handy but just stopped  happening.

.......Another Peter


> -----Original  Message-----
> 
> I am using Access 2003, and in this particular  case I am entering data
> directly into the tables, tabbing across the  fields.
> 
> There is an irritating "feature" I would like to  disable. If I enter 1
> in a  field, tab to the next and enter 2,  tabbing to the following
> fields increments  by 1 each time, so it  is attempting to second-guess
> me (incorrectly.)
> 
> I  searched, but couldn't find any way to turn this off (or, indeed, any
>  reference to it at all in the "Help."
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  Peter


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