Combo Box (2002)

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I have a combo box on a (Single) form that displays (in drop down) four columns:

Name
OfficePhone
CellPhone
Pager

When a selection is made, the Name is displayed in the combo box.

I also have a Continuous form (based on the same query) that displays this same Name, but in a text box. There is no access to the phone numbers. Is it possible to have three additional text boxes that will display the (underlying) phone numbers from the combo box?

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Bryan
How is you single form related to your continuous form ?

With a combo, you can display all it’s data quite simply, example:
cboContact which has 4 columns, 0 = Name, 1 = OfficePhone, 2 = CellPhone, 3 = Pager.

Now it’s quite easy to pull this info by creating 4 unbound text box’s on your form.
In the control source of each, you must relate to the column you need, ie

(Text1) – (ControlSource) =cboContact.Column(0) to display the “Name”
(Text2) – (ControlSource) =cboContact.Column(1) to display the “OfficePhone”
(Text3) – (ControlSource) =cboContact.Column(2) to display the “CellPhone”
(Text4) – (ControlSource) =cboContact.Column(3) to display the “Pager”

Combo’s columns start from numerical 0 (Zero)

On the other hand, if the Cont….. form has the query behind it, Just add the relevant fields from the field selection list in design view .

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Dave:

Not enough coffee this morning. I kept screwing up the syntax. Thanks for the input – it works perfectly!

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