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Thank you Mike. Ive just tested it with the combo in the FormHeader and tested it with the combo in the Detail section. Both ways seem to work. Are you saying its best practice to have it separated (header/details)? will i run into trouble later down the line if i don't separate them off? i'm...

Hi mike, yes that's correct. My main form contains the combo box. The user selects the customer name that they wish to edit the details of. The subform then displays the customers info ready for the user to make some changes . Is this bad practice? Its seems to be working 🤷‍♂️

thanks ranman, you were correct about the default view. ive actually just come across this video which also helped. the main thing seems to be to create the subform separately then drag it into the main form. rather then using the wizard to create the subform.

Hello everybody, Kind of fallen at the first hurdle here. In a contacts db i'd like to populate the fields of a subform based on when the user selects from a combo box. Create form called CustomerDetails Add a combo box and run through the wizard adding the 'CustomerName' field from the...

Online and learning Access!

Hello everyone, I'm Zac. I've recently discovered Access. I think my version is the 365 version.... or at least it comes with the 365 package. Ive got some grand ideas about a database id like to build for my company. Access seems like a good place to start. Im fairly tech savvy and i have a...