Enabling Edits. The data in the grid is normally protected from inadvertent changes and cannot be edited. You can enable editing by clicking on the "Enable Editing" checkbox. After you have enabled editing, you still must enable editing for each row you want to edit. You do this by selecting a row with the mouse, the arrow keys, navigation bar, tab key or scroll bars. Once you have selected a row, click on the "Edit" button in the navigation bar. This will put the row into editing mode and you can now enter data directly by type into the grid. You can now move from column-to-column in the same row without going out of edit mode.
Committing Data. When you have finished editing the data, you can make the changes permanent by hitting the "Save" button on the navigator bar. Moving off the row also makes the changes permanent and takes the grid out of editing mode.
Field Filters. The grid is sensitive to the type data expected for each field and will only accept correct characters. For example, if you try to type the letter "A" into a numeric field nothing will happen.
Auto Edit. You also make it easier to edit by clicking on the "Auto Edit" checkbox. When Auto Editing is enabled, the grid goes into editing mode whenever you begin to type data into a cell. This makes it easier to enter large blocks of data, but also makes it easier to inadvertently modify the information. Remember that the program will not allow you to enter invalid information into a field and the program will not go into editing mode until you do.
Undo Changes. You can undo the changes you have made to an individual cell by hitting the Escape key one time. You can undo all the changes to a row by hitting the Escape key twice or by clicking on the "Cancel" button in the navigator bar.
Editing Memo Fields. If you have any memo fields in your database, you cannot edit them directly in the grid because they can contain large blocks of text. If you select a memo field, the text from the field will appear in the Memo Box at the bottom of the page. If you enable editing, the text in this box can be edited. The changes can be saved or canceled in exactly the same way as other data.
Editing Memo Fields. If you have any images, photographs or graphics fields in your database, you can edit them using the Image Field box at the bottom of the page. Images can be pasted from the clipboard into the Image Field box and into the database. They can also be loaded and saved directly to files.