<< Heads-down typing client has less finger-work to do pressing Alt-S, than reaching for the F2 key. She can learn to make your legacy-matching trick obsolete. >>
You still need to protect against a knowledgeable user hitting F2 and bypassing the validation. Which also argues for implementing the validation as RULEs, CONSTRAINTs, or TRIGGERs, if possible. -- Larry
