autonumber problems in form

[Crazy-Chris]

hello everyone - ok i have made a form from a table and basically th
table has an autonumber as the primary key - now when i try and ente
new data via the form i would like the auto number to automatically b
entered and not be entered by hand - i hope this makes sense - pleas
help/let me know if you dont understand and i will try and re-word it

regards
chri

 

[John Vinson]

hello everyone - ok i have made a form from a table and basically the
table has an autonumber as the primary key - now when i try and enter
new data via the form i would like the auto number to automatically be
entered and not be entered by hand - i hope this makes sense - please
help/let me know if you dont understand and i will try and re-word it

Umm... if it's an Autonumber field it WILL be. You cannot edit the
autonumber field; as a rule it shouldn't be displayed on the form at
all, or if you do display it, set the properties of the textbox to
Tabstop = No, Locked = Yes, Enabled = No.