Basic data entry

[P-C-Surgeon]

How do you make the curser go directly to the left side of a text box. For example, when using a field with data type as date/time and the input mask as 'short date', my curser doesn't always go to the left side. Is there something in the properties I can do to have it default to the left side?

 

[SydneyGeek]

I think you'll find that Access automatically goes to the right for fields based on numbers or dates, because by default they are right-aligned.
In Design view, go to the control in question, and in the Format section of Properties, change the alignment to Left. That should do the trick.

Denis