Problem:

I tab into a pop-up list field. I hit the down arrow until the selection I want is highlighted. I hit tab to go onto the next field. But the value I selected is not saved in the field, unless I hit 'return' instead of 'tab'.

Anyone know of a way to force Filemaker to keep the selected pop-up list value when you tab out of the field? I'd like to eliminate the extra 'enter' you have to type.

Thanks to everyone who posts on this forum, it's extremely helpful. Hopefully soon I'll have enough experience to contribute back more.

Somebody's got to have this same problem. Any thoughts?

Right now I switched to pop up menus (which also speeds things up in Windows FMP 7) but this is not the ideal.

Select all the Pop-List fields in layout mode. Then under the fromat menu choose field behavior. Check all the boxes at the bottom (move to next field using enter, return, tab) this works in FMP7 running on OSX

Thanks for the response Allen! I'll give it a try. I'm heavy cross platform, so hopefully this will work in Windows, too.