Some of our employees are using PDAs running Windows Mobile, v 5.1.478.

They're using Word Mobile and the barcode scanner to record large volumes of data. The scanner's default action is to insert the scanned text exactly as if it had been input with the keyboard, and puts a newline at the end. That's great, because it's exactly what we need it to do: separate data with newlines.

The issue comes when system can't read the barcode, and the employee has to type in the data by hand. They've discovered a very peculiar quirk of Mobile applications: pressing the hardware Enter/Return key on the keyboard appears to save and exit the application. How do we change this behavior?

They've realized that using the stylus to "click" the virtual on-screen keyboard's Enter/Return key will add the necessary newline, but it's a huge inconvenience for them.

How do I fix the default behavior of the Enter/Return key for Word Mobile to instead insert a newline?

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sorry, questions about devices like PDAs are offtopic on Super User. you should direct this question to AskAboutGadgets or one of the gadget or smartphone related sites on this list. – quack quixote Jun 7 '10 at 23:14
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closed as off topic by quack quixote Jun 7 '10 at 23:14

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Without knowing the application OR the hardware the best I can suggest is to have an alternative character they type in like a pipe (assuming this delimiter will never be used). Then just pre-process the data and replace pipes (|) with newlines.
I admit it's not an ideal solution but without more details there's not much I can say.

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