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Originally Posted by BetterRed
This prompted a thought: If I Backtab into a Dialogue Edit cell (e.g a long text or composite) could it pop the relevant dialogue box. So when I Tab over Location (a sparsely used long text column) and I actually want to enter a Location then I could hit Backtab and the dialogue would pop.
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I don't agree that this would be good behavior. It is very context dependent and to my mind unexpected. Shift-Tab should backtab in this context, not do anything else.
When doing the work I considered disabling the edit dialogs when the cell was opened with Shift-Tab. The dialog opening always surprised me when testing. There is no way to recover short of Esc then F2. What I wanted was for the inline editor to open so Shift Tab would continue to work. If I wanted the dialog I could hit escape then Shift-F2. The same is true if I want Ctrl-F2. I didn't make these changes to avoid surprising users, but I think I should have.
To get what you want, either:
- Hit Esc then Tab to move into the multi-value cell, then Ctrl-F2.
- Tab to the "cell to far", hit Esc, Shift-Tab to back up as needed, then Shift F2 to open the editor.
This is consistent, predictable behavior.