I have an Access program that I need to disable the Contrtol P function to print. I don't want the information to be printed. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Well the clunky fudge would be to change the Print shortcut key to something obscure on the client, but it's not a professional solution...<grin>
The keystroke can probably be intercepted by a piece of VBA code and handled that way, but I couldn't tell you how - you would be better posting this on the MS Access forums.
I wouldn't get too hung up on this though - even if you prevent the user printing via Access, you won't be able to stop them hitting <Print Screen> and screen dumping it to word/paint/etc. The bottom line is that a competent user will be able to print whatever comes onto their screen anyway.... Jonathan Challis
IT Manager
I appreciate the help I am going to play with the code you suggested but until then I found a work around. The database doesn't require any key strokes...so if any key is pressed it closes. To get around the print screen, we use Citrix on DOS terminals so I moved the progrsm on a terminal with out a printer.
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