OK, Tom,

So you are trying to show existing records in a combobox for a table that you also want to be able to add records to? Hmmm. This sounds awkward. Generally, a combobox is used to list values from other tables. Have you considered using a list or grid to show existing records?








>You'll have to excuse my lack of terminology- I'm quite the novice.
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>>Need some clarification here....Are they combo or list style? What is the >controlsource? What is the rowsource? What is "data1"?
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>>data1 = thisform.mycombo.value
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>These combo boxes are list in nature and the data source is the same table that I'm trying to add new records to.
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>The row source is something I'm not quite up on...any description you can give will help.
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>Data1 is a sample variable name that I was using to reference the value typed into the combo box.
>I may be doing this all completely incorrectly. Simply put- my users need to be able to input info into a form and the form needs to input that data into a table.
>Thanks-
>Tom Welch