Keyboard shortcuts on continuous forms

[KornGeek]

I have begun using the '& ' character in my label captions to create keyboard shortcuts (or whatever the proper term is). This works wonderfully on single forms, but on continuous forms, it doesn't seem to do anything.

Does anybody have any experience with this?

Your help is greatly appreciated. Sleep is for people with no caffeine.

 

[KornGeek]

Please, if anyone can offer some help on this, I would be very grateful. Sleep is for people with no caffeine.

 

[KornGeek]

I'm pleading for assistance on this one more time. I've tried to figure out what events get fired by the hot keys, but I've had no luck. I think the root of the problem is that the text label is not associated with the text box.

I've looked in the Help files, Microsoft's Knowledge Center, and searched the Tek-Tips archives, but I can't see any reference to this. Is this somehow very easy, and I'm just not seeing it?

 

[KornGeek]

I'm hoping that by bringing this back to the top of the forum, it might not get overlooked. It seems like this is something that Access would support, but I can't get it to work.

In my Access 2000 database, I have a continuous form where one of the fields (TagNumber) has a label with a caption of "&Tag Number", which appears as "Tag Number". However, when I use Alt-T, it is not jumping to the TagNumber field. I can't even determine if it is firing an event. This happens with all of my fields on all of my continuous forms.

I don't have an Autokeys macro running, so it's not being intercepted there. I have tried all of the resources I can think of, but none seem to mention this specifically for continuous forms. It works great on my single forms. Please offer whatever insight you may have.

If you know it can be done, but aren't sure how, I would like to know. If you know it can't be done, please let me know that. Even if you only believe it should be able to be done, and can offer nothing but hope, I will accept words of encouragement at this time.

Thank you.

 

[KornGeek]

I'm planning to wrap up development on my project tomorrow, and I would like to have this working by then. Please offer whatever advice you can give.

Thank you.

 

[dan9991]

You do have the option of setting your own shortcut properties. I think it is in the control properties. There should be something like shortcut key.

 

[KornGeek]

Dan9991,
Thank you for your response. I greatly appreciate it. I have checked the control properties, but the closest setting I can find is the ShortcutMenuBar property (which Access help describes as setting the menu that appears when you right-click on a control). I am using Access 2000. Do you know where I can find this property?

Also in Access help, I found the phrase "When you assign an access key to a label or button, you can press ALT + an underlined character to move the focus to the control that is attached to that label, or to the button."

I think the problem I'm having might be related to having the control "attached" to the label. I'm not sure if my labels and controls are "attached", and I can't figure out how to check or set this.

Once again, thank you very much for your response.