Box Type

[ineptnoob]

What kind of box can I use if I just want to display a name from a table? When I select the text box option in the design view I get two boxes- a text box and a control box. Well if I remove the control box.... the text box also goes away. I just need to be able to pull in info from a table on the back end

[Beetle]

When I select the text box option in the design view I get two boxes- a text box and a control box.

Actually, what you get is a Label and a Text Box;



If you delete the Text Box, the Label will go with it, but you can remove the Label without removing the Text Box.

The Text Box is what you need for data.

As far as how you get the data in the Text Box, that depends on the circumstances. If the data you need is in a field in the Record Source of your form, then you can just set the Control Source of the Text Box to that field. If the data is in a different Record Source, then you can use DLookup, or another domain function, to retrieve the value from the other Record Source (Table or Query). This would also be done in the Control Source of the Text Box. Example;

=DLookup("SomeField", "SomeTable")