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Select All Text

Select All Text

Question:
How do you automatically select all text in a TextBox when it receives the focus?

Answer:
For a text box named Text1 you can use the following code:

Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()    With Text1        .SelStart = 0        .SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)    End WithEnd Sub
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