Thanks Ling Adams for your detailed & succinct answer...

Thanks Ling Adams for your detailed and succinct answer to a question I and
many others pondered in how to copy or repeat form values from one record to
the next. In your reply to JaneM, “Preautopopulate from records� on 8-26-08,
you brought out the simple example that “People doing "batch" data entries
often find themselves entering ***some*** fields over and over again, and can
benefit from the technique I offered.�

I especially appreciated your intuition in diagnosing the question and
providing a carefully worded summary interpretation of what you believed the
person was referring to: “If, by ‘copying (autopopulating) data from the
previous record’ you mean can you enter one record, move to a new record and
have certain fields populated with the same values from the previous record,
yes you can and yes, it'll require code.� You go on to explain precisely how
this can be done.

Note for readers who are interested in Ling’s full answer to this pre-auto
fill question, please see “Preautopopulate Form Records� in Form Design,
8-26-08.

I am surprised that this need to repeat form values from one record to the
next is even being questioned as to why.

In your reply you brought out the simple example that “People doing "batch"
data entries often find themselves entering ***some*** fields over and over
again, and can benefit from the technique I offered.�

This “auto-fill� question has been raised and answered many times in the
past. Here are some other very good references on this subject supporting
Ling’s excellent response to JaneM:

4-02-08 Auto Fill (Dave Hargis)
11-16-07 Create a Duplicate Record (Allen Browne)
8-07-07 Repeat Form Values From 1 Record to the Next (Doug Steele)
6-07-07 Copying a Previous Entry (Sprinks)

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Tank