Recent content by pixelpusher

ajetrumpet, i couldn't get it to work setting the control source in the properties of the combo box, but you're right. Maybe a list box would be better for what I'm trying to do. That way a user could see a menu of many records at a time and selecting/highlighting one would show them where they...

Thanks for the reply. I'm still kind of a NOOB on Access programming, but this seems a bit convoluted. Shouldn't there be a way to fire off a routine with the "Click" event of one of the above mentioned navigation buttons that sets the combo box selection to the record that corresponds with the...

Can someone please help me to figure out how to make my record selecting combo box automatically select or "update" to the currently selected record? In other words, when I select a new record using either custom "next" or "previous" record buttons, or the default "Navigation Buttons", I want...

like i said in the other forum. Thanks for your help :)

I'm not new to object oriented programming but I am new to Access. I have found some questions similar to mine in search but I need more explanation if someone wouldn't mind. In my form, I have a combo box that looks up 3 values from another table. Among other controls, I have a few text boxes...

Hello. Here's some background on what I'm trying to do. I am building a database that will hold data on 31 parks. Each park will contain many advertisers and each advertiser may be in one or many parks. Theres more to this but i will just stick to what I am having trouble with. The tables i...

I got the same warning about lookup fields on another forum. This solves my issue for now it would seem. Thank you for the reply.

I'm a bit of a newbie, so lets just get that out of the way.... I have a field in a table that was originally a text data type. I want to change it to a "lookup" data type using the lookup wizard. However, Access doesn't allow me to do this and prompts me with "You can't change the data...