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title: "Navigate in Form view shortcut keys in MS Access"  
description: "In this article I am trying to explain shortcut keys for Navigate in Form in MS Access."  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-04  
updated: 2017-11-30  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1223/navigate-in-form-view-shortcut-keys-in-ms-access  
category: "shortcut keys"  
tags: ["shortcut keys"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Navigate in Form view shortcut keys in MS Access

In this [article](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81489/kashmir-now-after-an-year-of-abrogation-of-article-370) I am trying to [explain](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159699/what-is-a-compilation-error-in-dot-net-core-explain-with-an-example) [shortcut keys](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/477/shortcut-keys-for-formatting-elements-in-pivottable-view-for-ms-access) for Navigate in [Form in MS](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96618/how-can-you-create-a-form-in-ms-access) Access.

##### Going to a specific record

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| F5 | To move to the record number box; then type the record number and press ENTER |

##### Navigating between fields and records

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| TAB | To move to the next field |
| SHIFT+TAB | To move to the previous field |
| END | To move to the last field in the current record, in [Navigation](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/62/different-navigation-in-asp-dot-net) mode |
| CTRL+END | To move to the last field in the last record, in Navigation mode |
| HOME | To move to the first field in the current record, in Navigation mode |
| CTRL+HOME | To move to the first field in the first record, in Navigation mode |
| CTRL+PAGE DOWN | To move to the current field in the next record |
| CTRL+PAGE UP | To move to the current field in the [previous record](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157521/store-the-previous-record-in-its-history-table-before-updating-it-in-the-sql-table-using-a-trigger) |

##### Navigating in forms with more than one page

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| PAGE DOWN | To go down [one page](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/118/problem-in-display-content-of-one-page-to-another-page); at the end of the record, moves to the equivalent page on the next record |
| PAGE UP | To go up one page; at the end of the record, moves to the equivalent page on the previous record |

##### Navigating between the main form and subform

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| TAB | To enter the subform from the preceding field in the main form |
| SHIFT+TAB | To enter the subform from the following field in the main form |
| CTRL+TAB | To exit the subform and move to the next field in the master form or next record |
| CTRL+SHIFT+TAB | To exit the subform and move to the previous field in the main form or previous record |

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