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Access and Excel Data Entry Keyboard Tips

Following are my favourite data entry tips. Try setting up a form with these and other tips and copy it into your new databases to offer some immediate productivity for your software. Have a button on your data entry forms to fire it up.

Press the CTRL and " keys at the same time to copy down the data from the same field in the record above.
	Press the CTRL and + keys at the same time to finish entry on the current line and commence entry on a new record
When entering dates, try the 12 5 (12 space 5) for 12 May in the current year.	Press the CTRL and : keys at the same time to enter the current date into the field.