How do I programatically activate a navigation button on an access 2010 navigation control?

Well, you cannot "activate a navigation button", but you can use the docmd.gotorecord method

Syntax looks like:

docmd.GoToRecord ,, acfirst

and the parameters are acFirst, acPrevious, acNext, acLast, acNew

or if you wanted to move backwards 3 records you could use

docmd.gotorecord ,,, -3

Not a relevant answer. I refer specifically to the Navigation Control as found (e.g.) on the Navigation Form - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff851947.aspx?ppud=4.

This is a series of buttons each of which can be associated with a form or report. No direct relationship to moving between records. I plan to have a form under NavigationButton1; a user action on that form should switch to the form under NavigationButton2.

Unfortunately we now have Navigation Forms and Navigation Controls (and Navigation Panels) and this is leading to plenty of confusion.

The poster wants to know about command button controls on Navigation Forms, despite what his original post stated.


I haven't had reason to do it but I would have thought you would use

 me.NavigationButtonName.Click

or maybe
me.Parent.NavigationButtonName.Click

or maybe
Forms!Navigationformname!NavigationButtonName.Click

depending on where you are calling it from.

Although I have 2010 loaded on my laptop, for testing purposes, have not really played around with the new interface.  Why can't MS stop screwing with the GUI, now that I'm comfortable with the ribbon, they seem to have moved on to something else.

Thanks for reading & thinking about my question.
Please no more flames or guesses or incorrect corrections. MS calls it a NavigationButton. See Help (as well as properties or object browser):
"NavigationButton Members ... This object represents a navigation button in a navigation control on a form.

Answered my own question.

Strongly recommend against using SendKeys.

Why? And what alternative is there?

docmd.browseto also does the trick, except the first time I call it it must be called twice!