All Textboxes Read-Only on Form

[cbrsix]

I want to have all of my textboxes and other fields in my form as read-only, but not greyed out, until a button is clicked, for example "Edit." What would be the best approach to doing this? Conditional Formatting? VBA?

Thanks.

[pbaldy]

I'd probably set the AllowEdits property of the form.

[cbrsix]

I am looking into this as a possible way to prevent unintentional changes to data. I would like certain forms to be ready-only and then when the "Edit" button is clicked have a pop up window come up verifying that you want to make changes and then when yes is clicked, make all fields on the form editable. Would I have to apply the AllowEdits to each object in the form or would I be able to apply to all with VBA?

[Missinglinq]

...Would I have to apply the AllowEdits to each object in the form or would I be able to apply to all with VBA...

This is all you need:

Private Sub Form_Current()
 Me.AllowEdits = False
End Sub

Private Sub EditButton_Click()
 
 Dim resp As Integer
 
 resp = MsgBox("Would You Like to Edit This Record?", vbYesNo + vbDefaultButton2)
 
 If resp = vbYes Then Me.AllowEdits = True
 

End Sub

Moving to the next Record will lock the Form again.

Linq ;0)>

[cbrsix]

Thank you. That works perfectly.

[Missinglinq]

Glad we could help!

Linq ;0)>