ACC: How to Send the Contents of a Control with SendKeys

Last reviewed: April 2, 1997
Article ID: Q95455

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 7.0, 97

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

To specify the contents of a control or field in the SendKeys action argument, you must precede the control or field name with an equal sign (=) in the Keystrokes argument.

MORE INFORMATION

The following example will perform a SendKeys action and send the contents of Field0 as the argument to the action.

   Action      Keystrokes
   -------------------------------
   SendKeys    =Forms!Form1!Field0

Additional query words: how to
Keywords : kbusage McrArg
Version : 1.0 1.1 2.0 7.0 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : X86
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: April 2, 1997
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