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    darsunt is offline Novice
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    Using combo box to enter different values into database than are on the combo list?

    I will have a list of owners, each with their own unique OwnerID.
    However, to make it easy on myself, I want the owner names to be on the combo box list, but have the form enter the matching owner ID into the database rather than the owner name.
    Is this possible? I assume it is, since Access seems quite flexible. So far, however, I haven't found any mechanism that will allow this. Do you guys know of any?

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    The combo wizard will offer the option, in fact it does it by default. Basically you include both fields in the row source, make the ID field the bound column but hide it with the column widths property.
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