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    LornaM is offline Novice
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    Synchronize a combo box with text in a textbox on a form

    I'm using Access 2003 and Windows XP.

    I have a form which I use for entering new users. On it I have a combo box which I want to use for quickly finding and editing other users records contained in the form's recordset. I have used this procedure successfully on other forms without any problem, but for some reason I keep getting a runtime error every time I try to use the combo box to find a user. For example, if I try to find a user contained in the recordset for the form whose userID is "royboy", I get the following runtime error:

    Runtime Error '3070':
    The Microsoft Jet database engine does not recognize "royboy" as a valid field name or expression.
    Following is the code I have attached to the AfterUpdate event for the combo box.



    Code:
     
    Private Sub cmboFindUser_AfterUpdate() 
    ' Find the record that matches the selection in the combo box. 
         Me.RecordsetClone.FindFirst "[strUserID] = " & Me![cmboFindUser]
              Me.Bookmark = Me.RecordsetClone.Bookmark
    End Sub
    On another form where I have done something similar with a combo box, the field I was sychronizing with was a number field and it worked perfectly. As you can see, the strUserId field on this form is a text field. Is that the problem why it's not working? If so, how do I work around it? Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

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    Me.RecordsetClone.FindFirst "[strUserID] = '" & Me![cmboFindUser] & "'"

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    LornaM is offline Novice
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    How silly of me....but I guess that's what happens when a person works until 3:00 in the morning...they lose their ability to reason! Thanks so much for your expert help; that fixed the problem.

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    Great! Glad I could help. Been there, done that.

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