MS Access 2013 Mouse wheel used to move through the records in a form

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Program: Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2013, Access® 2013.

Access did not have the ability to move through form records with the mouse wheel. Though others have written code to give the programmer or db builder the ability to move through the records, we created this simple code to do the same. This code was created for a single form with may records. It was not tested for any other purpose. We think the builders at MS should have either left the ability to scroll through the forms records with the mouse wheel in, or give a check box in Options/Client Settings/Mouse Wheel Movement/Check box for active, for those of us who still want the ability.

“Me.” Denotes the name of the current form.

“By Bal Count As Long” is the movement of the mouse wheel, positive number for the next record,

negative number for the previous record.

Private Sub Form_MouseWheel(ByBal Page As Boolean, ByVal Count As Long)

‘If the mouse rolls back and you are not on the first record

‘you will go to the previous record.

If (Count < 0) And (Me.CurrentRecord > 1) Then

                              DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acPrevious

                              Exit Sub

End If

‘If you’re moving forward in the record set, and as long as you are not on the last record,

‘then you will move to the next record.

If (Count > 0) Snd (Me.CurrentRecord < Me.Recordset.RecordCount) Then

                              DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext

                              Exit Sub

End If

‘Based upon the above code, if you are trying to go to the previous record and you are on

‘the first record, nothing is done.

‘And the same when you are on the last record and want to go to the next record, nothing

‘will happen.

End Sub

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