>>I would like to set up a function key so that when you press it the textbox that currently has the focus on a form will grab the value from the preceeding record in the table. Is this possible and if so how? Thanks for the help and happy new year!!!
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>You can just go to Textbox.Keypress event to intercept appropriate key and fire some code to set Value property to previous record value.

Edward,
i get what you mean, but how do I do it?