G'day there One & All once more,

Up until this evening I was scooting along marvelously with my new
rostering application. However now I've come across one more of those
tricky little traps for the unwary.

I've got the first column of my worksheet checking to see if the
first character of the typed entry is a string or a number. It then does
one of two things. If a string, the entry is considered a section
heading and it's changed to upper case, formatted, row height set and a
border put under the first 7 cells. That bit works perfectly.

A numeric entry, however, is considered the employee number and
opens a userform to gather a few other details such as position & name.
I also collect allowance qualifications. On clicking the "Enter" button,
this data is stored in consecutive columns adjacent the entry cell with
some data going into hidden columns. At least that's the plan.

Because of the way that the event trigger seems to work, I find
that after the code finds a numeric entry, my userform shows and the
selected cell is immediately moved down one row. The form is then
completed and "Enter" clicked, thus storing the data in the row under
the initial point of entry. This is not exactly what I was after.

I've alleviated the situation on my own system by writing the data
to the line above the current selection. However, as my users don't
necessarily have consistent option settings I can't be sure what the
MoveAfterReturn Property will be set to. I've been fiddling about with
turning it off & on at appropriate moments, but it's getting quite
intricate and messy.

I only really need to have it turned off on the first column of
the first sheet but that's asking a bit much =). I tried the obvious
manouvre of turning it off in the Worksheet_Change code but, as
expected, since it's the change that triggers the code the property is
turned off after the selection has moved.

Has anyone seen, or can think of, a workaround? Just turning it
off suits me, but that's not good for other users.

See ya
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia.