Hello Frank, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb: > Hi Mechtilde, > >> In Base I use a form as a table to put many values in a table. >> >> If a change from one cell to another with <TAB> I want the focus to the >> whole cell. > > With "focus to the whole cell", I assume, you mean that the complete > content is selected. yes > >> Some times i have the whole focus and siome times not. >> >> I can't find any different in the prokperties. >> >> e.g there are two rows with currency values side by side. one has the >> focus one not. >> >> Who can give me a hint to look for? > > Hmm. IIRC (not sure - this whole implementation is somewhat ... strange) > this at least partially depends on the selection in the previous editing > in this column. That is, assume you have a cell with some content, and > de-select everything. The travel with <TAB> until you reach the same > column in the next row. In this case, all the content will be > de-selected, too. > If, on the other hand, you select all content in the first cell, > everything will be selected in the second, too. Most of the time, that > is ... I use it for Calculation (in German: Buchhaltung) so if i don't use a default value I must set "0" for an "empty" cell. If I use a default value I must delete 0,00 € and set the new value. this is very bad. > > It also depends on the lengths of the involved texts, and the field type. The field type is decimal (9,2) in most cells
> In other words: There is no defined, consistent behaviour, it implicitly > depends on quite some other factors. And there is nothing changeable? ;-) Greetings Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## Observer OpenOffice.org: lang/DE ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
