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Access - Inserting a Calculator

I inserted a calculator to one of my forms.  The calculator works great except that I can no longer use F11 to get to my Access tables since the shortcut for the calculator is also F11.  I don't know were to change the F11 shortcut in the code.  Suggestions?
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If you are using the windows calculator, then it should be in with the calculator properties. See the following link for background info and a good step by step.

                      http://www.best-of-computing.com/calculator-software-launch.html


                   
Alternative to F11 is Alt F1
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SharonInGeorgia:  Nothing against Jeff's answer, but this thread has absolutely zero value for anybody trying to find an answer to this type of question.  How did you resolve the problem?
SharonInGeorgia,

GRayL, has raised a good point.
I notice a lot lately that posts in general just get "accepted" without the original poster explaining or even saying thanks.
Its normally not a big deal... for us.
But when you post 3 possible solutions in one post, and your post just gets accepted, no one knows how the problem was resolved.

This poses an issue for users searching the site for solutions. They will find the question and say "Hey that's what I need". They scroll to the accepted solution, see that the poster had 3 different suggestions, but the original poster simply "accepted" the last post without an explanation of which of the 3 suggestions actually solved the problem.

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GRayL ,

Again, good point.
;)

My post was just to ask "What is this calculator" A calculator is not in the list of "other controls" in the toolbox, so I wondered where it came from. Perhaps the F11 call was in the code that initialized the Calc?

<Alternative to F11 is Alt F1>
I have seen and used this in office 2000 (Excel quick charts), However in trying this (On two machines here at work) since reading your post, Alt-F1 in Access 2003 now brings up the Task Pane, (even though Ctrl-F1 is the designated shortcut? Whether the database window is minimized or hidden)
Whats more interesting is that this is only if you select the following Object tabs from the database window: Tables, Forms, or Queries.
Oddly enough when you select Reports, Alt-F1 opens the selected Report???
Can you confirm this behavior?

Thanks,
 Jeff
Jeff:  I'm running A2K - time to upgrade I guess. BTW, I noted in Access Quick keys that Alt+F1, the alternate to F11.  So I assumed if the Calculator (whatever it is) is activated by F11, then Alt+F1 should also bring you the DB window - is that what you call the Task Pane.
GRayL ,

The Task Pane (Pain!), was introduced in 2002 (xp) as a way to help new users of Office "Get Started"
Here is a screenshot:
https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/ee-stuff/5559-TaskPaneScreenShot.zip

I'll post this as a separate Q tonight, I am curious to see if others have this issue.

Jeffc
With the AutoKeys macro ... you should be able to make F11 again open the database window instead of the calculator ... or vice-versa.

mx