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FindMatch anywhere, FindField all - how to keep that?



 
 
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Old July 2nd, 2004, 09:45 AM
Niko Roorda
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Default FindMatch anywhere, FindField all - how to keep that?

Hello to all,

I made a nice database with a couple of tables, forms, etc.
Most of it is ok, but one thing is driving me crazy.

On every form, I made a "Search" button. The effect is equivalent to
selecting "Edit - Find" in the menu.
The VBA text of the button is (apart from On Error things etc.):

Screen.PreviousControl.SetFocus
DoCmd.DoMenuItem acFormBar, acEditMenu, 10, , acMenuVer70

Now, for every search that I do, I want to search anywhere (i.e. in parts of
the fields, not only in the whole fields) en in all fields (i.e. not only in
the current field).
In the MS Access Options, you can select these settings, and so I did.

Now, when I start MS Access and my database, at first this is ok: the first
search has the desired options. According to the Help, these options should
be used again and again, but this is simply not true. When I start a new
search, suddenly, all by itself, the search options are changed to
acWholeField and acCurrent, and I don't want that!!

I tried to change the VBA text of the button, but I cannot find out how.
It seems to me that there are two ways I could follow:

1.
Keep using DoCmd.DoMenuItem. The problem then is that this command doesn't
offer a chance to set the search options.

2.
Use DoCmd. FindRecord. Now I can set the search options. But, in that case I
also have to fill in the search term, which I don't have yet, because only
when I use DoCmd.MenuItem, the search box appears in which I can fill in the
term that I want to find.

So I can't figure it out. In fact, rewriting the VBA text of the button is
far from ideal, because I also want to be able to search, using the hot key
combination Ctrl+F. It would be nice if I could link this key combination to
the button, but if I am not wrong, there is no way to define a hot key for a
button. Or is there?

Niko


 




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