POSITION OF CURSOR AFTER VALIDATION ERROR

[yuda0603]

Greetings,

Working in OUTLOOK 2003, have a form with a text box which requires a
telephone number. In the Properties, Validation, the “Validate this field
before closing the form†box is checked, in the validation formula I have
[TELEPHONE] > 0, and a message is displayed if nothing is entered. It all
works.

My problem is that the ‘cursor’ seems to get lost, I would like to have the
cursor go to the field that is in error, any way to do that?

Thanks,

Yuda0603

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you want to control the cursor placement, then you'll probably want to do your validation with VBScript code in the form's Item_Send or Item_Write event handler. You can check the value and use the SetFocus method to put the focus on the desired control. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/propsyntax.htm#unbound if you need help with the control syntax.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers