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Form.SelWidth property (Access)

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Use the SelWidth property to specify or determine the number of selected columns (fields) in the current selection rectangle. Read/write Long.

Syntax

expression.SelWidth

expression A variable that represents a Form object.

Remarks

If there's no selection, the value returned by this property will be zero. Setting this property to 0 removes the selection from the datasheet or form.

If you've selected one or more records in the datasheet (using the record selectors), you can't change the setting of the SelWidth property (except to set it to 0).

Use these properties with the SelTop and SelLeft properties to specify or determine the actual position of the selection rectangle on the datasheet. If there's no selection, the SelTop and SelLeft properties return the row number and column number of the cell with the focus.

The SelHeight and SelWidth properties contain the position of the lower-right corner of the selection rectangle.

The SelTop and SelLeft property values determine the upper-left corner of the selection rectangle.

Example

The following example shows how to use the SelHeight, SelWidth, SelTop, and SelLeft properties to determine the position and size of a selection rectangle in Datasheet view. The SetHeightWidth procedure assigns the height and width of the current selection rectangle to the variables lngNumRows, lngNumColumns, lngTopRow, and lngLeftColumn, and displays those values in a message box.

Public Sub SetHeightWidth(ByRef frm As Form) 
 
 Dim lngNumRows As Long 
 Dim lngNumColumns As Long 
 Dim lngTopRow As Long 
 Dim lngLeftColumn As Long 
 Dim strMsg As String 
 
 ' Form is in Datasheet view. 
 If frm.CurrentView = 2 Then 
 
 ' Number of rows selected. 
 lngNumRows = frm.SelHeight 
 
 ' Number of columns selected. 
 lngNumColumns = frm.SelWidth 
 
 ' Topmost row selected. 
 lngTopRow = frm.SelTop 
 
 ' Leftmost column selected. 
 lngLeftColumn = frm.SelLeft 
 
 ' Display message. 
 strMsg = "Number of rows: " & lngNumRows & vbCrLf 
 strMsg = strMsg & "Number of columns: " _ 
 & lngNumColumns & vbCrLf 
 strMsg = strMsg & "Top row: " & lngTopRow & vbCrLf 
 strMsg = strMsg & "Left column: " & lngLeftColumn 
 MsgBox strMsg, vbInformation 
 End If 
 
End Sub

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