ActiveDatasheet Property

You can use the ActiveDatasheet property together with the Screen object to identify or refer to the datasheet that has the focus. Read-only Form object.

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Setting

The ActiveDatasheet property setting contains the datasheet object that has the focus at run time.

This property is available by using a macro or Visual Basic and is read-only in all views.

Remarks

You can use this property to refer to an active datasheet together with one of its properties or methods. For example, the following code uses the ActiveDatasheet property to reference the top row of the selection in the active datasheet.

TopRow = Screen.ActiveDatasheet.SelTop

Example

The following example uses the ActiveDatasheet property to identify the datasheet cell with the focus, or if more than one cell is selected, the location of the first row and column in the selection.

Public Sub GetSelection()
    ' This procedure demonstrates how to get a pointer to the
    ' current active datasheet.

    Dim objDatasheet As Object
    Dim lngFirstRow As Long
    Dim lngFirstColumn As Long
    Const conNoActiveDatasheet = 2484
    
    On Error GoTo GetSelection_Err
    
    Set objDatasheet = Screen.ActiveDatasheet
    
    lngFirstRow = objDatasheet.SelTop
    lngFirstColumn = objDatasheet.SelLeft
    MsgBox "The first item in this selection is located at " & _
        "Row " & lngFirstRow & ", Column " & _
        lngFirstColumn, vbInformation
        
GetSelection_Bye:
    Exit Sub
GetSelection_Err:
    If Err = conNoActiveDatasheet Then
        MsgBox "No data sheet is active.", vbExclamation
        Resume GetSelection_Bye
    End If
End Sub