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Ok, I have created a form with various fields. I would like to make certain
fields required information. In other words a certain field would require
you to put information into before you can close the form or move to the
next field.

thanks for you help

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:55:37 -0400, "Ken" jeepdakota(NO
wrote:

Ok, I have created a form with various fields. I would like to make certain
fields required information. In other words a certain field would require
you to put information into before you can close the form or move to the
next field.

thanks for you help


Two ways (at least) to do this:

- Open the Table which will contain this data and select each of these
fields; set the field's Required property to True.

- For a friendlier error message, use the Form's BeforeUpdate event.
Invoke the Code Builder and put code like

Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel as Integer)
Dim iAns As Integer
If IsNull(Me!txtReqFieldA) Then
iAns = MsgBox("Please fill in Field A; or Cancel to clear form", _
vbOKCancel)
If iAns = vbOK Then
Cancel = True ' cancel the update to the table
Me!txtReqFieldA.SetFocus ' move the user to the control
Else
Me.Undo ' erase the entire form to start over
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub


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