>>>>In my application when I click on a command button it opens up a memo field for editing but the cursor is always pointing to the top of the memo field
>>>>
>>>>How do I get the cursor to start at the end of the memo field?
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>>>Hi colin
>>>
>>>you want to use selstart and set it to the length of the text
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>>The data is displayed in text32 - I want to add 10 characters and continue typing-
>>The data is in the Notes field
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>>My code is
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>>select globalnew
>>STORE LEN(TRIM(notes)) TO ww
>>ww=ww+10
>>
>>
>>thisForm.text32.SelStart=ww
>>thisform.refresh
>>
>>
>>What have I done wrong?
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>I'm just guessing that the cursor position is at the end of the text, not the end of the text plus 10. Is that what the problem is?
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>You will need to add space(10) to the end of your string in order for ww to be correct.
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>something like this:
>
>

>replace Notes with Notes + SPACE(10)
>STORE LEN(TRIM(notes)) TO ww
>thisForm.text32.SelStart=ww

No The next time I open the notes field I want the cursor to start at the previous data + 10 but all it does is to strat at the beginning of the notes field