Preventing close buttons from saving records in MS Access

Question

In a Microsoft Access form, whenever the current record changes, any changes in bound controls are silently saved to the database tables. This is fine, but I don\'t want it to h

Answer 1

You have to work with Form_BeforeUpdate event. Below is an example; however it does create a typical warning message: "You can't save this record at this time. Microsoft Access may have encountered an error while trying to save a record. ..." - depending on your database settings. You can use simple workaround below to avoid displaying of that message.

Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer)
   Cancel = True
   'Or even better you can check certain fields here (If Then...)

End Sub


Private Sub Form_Error(DataErr As Integer, Response As Integer)
    If DataErr = 2169 Then 
        Response = True
    End If
End Sub