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    open form to a record and the focus on a field on the opened form from a command button and combobox

    Hi all, I have a dilemma, I have looked through the internet and found many ways of setting focus on a form when it opens, that's fine and dandy, however, I would like to set the focus from another from from a command button.

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    Just go through the Forms collection. http://access.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0031.htm

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    Hi thanks for your quick reply, but your answer refers to forms and subforms, I have a combobox and command button on entirely different form, the user chooses a record from the combo then clicks the command button which opens the form to that specific record, what I want to achieve is when that other form opens to go to a specific field for data entry, but not want the form to open to that field when it opens from another method, hope that makes sense.

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    Forms.YourOtherFormName.TheControlYouWant.SetFocus.
    ...using your values of course.

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    Hi ruralGuy, I beat you to it, just came on to tell you I've solved it with exactly the same solution, just came to me like a eureka moment, but thanks for confirming my solution

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    Glad we're on the same track. Thanks for posting back with your success.

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