Dave Johnson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >Richard Hartman wrote: > >>It would be >>nice if any text highlighted in the edit window when >>the find dialog is called up were automatically placed >>in the "find" field... >Personally I wouldn't like that (what if I'm repeating a previous find >and happen to have some other junk selected?) but there's something >equivalently convenient:
The MSDev convention of assuming any word the cursor is currently in (selected or not) is a bit excessive, but I don't have a problem w/ assuming the selection is desired ... matter of taste of course. > >Use cmd-e (on windows it's probably ctrl-e), it's in the Search menu, it >enters any selected text into the find dialog. So for instance I often >double-click a word to select it, cmd-e, cmd-f and the dialog is up with >the search word in place. > Interesting. Actually better for my purposes seems to be Ctrl-F3 which just finds the next match for whatever is selected w/o even bringing the find dialog up at all. Ok ... now if the checkboxes in the batching section would just work right .... -- -Richard M. Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW! -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
