What is 'navigation mode'?

[Rick Charnes]

Can someone tell me how to get into 'Navigation mode' while in Datasheet
view? I see it mentioned in the Keyboard Shortcuts help topic. Thanks.

 

[Brendan Reynolds \(MVP\)]

Press F2. This toggles between 'navigation' mode, where the arrow keys move
the cursor from one field or control to the next, and 'edit' mode, where the
arrow keys move the insertion point within the selected field or control.

 

[Rick Charnes]

Thanks. Where would I have discovered that? Looking in Help there is
no entry at all for 'Navigation Mode'.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Thanks. Where would I have discovered that? Looking in Help there is
no entry at all for 'Navigation Mode'.

<Sigh> In the Access 97 help, that term was in the glossary, and all
you had to do was click it and the definition would display. In Access
2000 help, it's highlighted but clicking it does nothing. Yet another
case of the amazing broken help system! It's a little better in A2002.

 

[Rick Charnes]

<Sigh> In the Access 97 help, that term was in the glossary, and all
you had to do was click it and the definition would display. In Access
2000 help, it's highlighted but clicking it does nothing. Yet another
case of the amazing broken help system! It's a little better in A2002.

My own opinion is that the advent of Windows degraded the quality of
help systems to the lowest level they've ever been since the beginning
of computers. Back in the old days I NEVER saw a DOS program that had
help as bad as virtually any Windows program has. When you type a word
in the Index tab of any Windows app's help, the number of Topics
returned that have NOTHING recognizably to do with what you asked for is
unbelievable.

But I'm sure I shouldn't start a thread on this topic here...

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

My own opinion is that the advent of Windows degraded the quality of
help systems to the lowest level they've ever been since the beginning
of computers. Back in the old days I NEVER saw a DOS program that had
help as bad as virtually any Windows program has. When you type a
word in the Index tab of any Windows app's help, the number of Topics
returned that have NOTHING recognizably to do with what you asked for
is unbelievable.

I hadn't noticed that. Certainly I've always felt the help in Access 97
was superb. However, they really broke it in A2K, haven't really fixed
it in A2K2, and I've no idea what A2K3's help is like. Let's hope.

But I'm sure I shouldn't start a thread on this topic here...

Probably not.