AllowEdits Property

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You can use the AllowEdits property to specify whether a user can edit saved records when using a form.

Setting

The AllowEdits property uses the following settings.

You can set the AllowEdits property by using the form's property sheet, a macro, or .

Remarks

You can use the AllowEdits property to prevent changes to all data displayed by a form. If you want to prevent changes to data in a specific control, use the Enabled or Locked property.

If you want to prevent changes to existing records (make a form read-only), set the AllowAdditions, AllowDeletions, and AllowEdits properties to No. You can also make records read-only by setting the RecordsetType property to Snapshot.

When the AllowEdits property is set to No, the Delete Record command on the Edit menu and the Data Entry command on the Records menu aren't available.

Note   When the Data Mode argument of the OpenForm action is set, Microsoft Access will override a number of form property settings. If the Data Mode argument of the OpenForm action is set to Edit, Microsoft Access will open the form with the following property settings:

• AllowEdits  Yes

• AllowDeletions  Yes

• AllowAdditions  Yes

• DataEntry  No

To prevent the OpenForm action from overriding any of these existing property settings, omit the Data Mode argument setting so that Microsoft Access will use the property settings defined by the form.