In Microsoft Access how do you prevent the cursor from going to a new field after you hit enter?

I don't have an environment set up right now that I could use to test this, so please keep that in mind, but can you utilize the event when the cursor leaves the box to place the focus back on the control that fired the event? (This may break your tab functionality and you would lose your ability to select another control)

Go to menu Files, Settings, Client settings.
Move setting in the first option, Move cursor with Enter, from:

    Next field

to:

    Do not move

Click OK and relaunch.

Does this information get included in the database file or only with the particular Access Client that is accessing the database?

will that setting apply to all fields?   If so I do not want that.

You can do something like this:

Private Sub YourTextBox_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)

    If KeyCode = vbKeyReturn Then
        KeyCode = 0

        ' Save form/record.
        If Me.Dirty = True Then
            Me.Dirty = False
        End If
        ' or call your search function. Use Text if textbox not updated, as Value is not updated.
        MySearchFunction Me!YourTextBox.Text
    End If

End Sub

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Sorry, Lansing, it does work.

Thanks

You are welcome