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    gilbertvb3 is offline Novice
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    Design a text box for multiple values

    I am designing a book collection database where each book can contain multiple authors. I used three tables; tblBooks, tblAuthors, tblBookAuthorJOIN. The tblBookAuthorJOIN allows me to create a subform with drop down combo boxes in the Books form linking multiple authors to each books indexed field. The Author table contains the usual FirstName, LastName, MiddleName fields. I would to be able to display the names of each author in the forms header but I am having difficulty.

    For example a book may have two authors such as:
    Authors table would contain values such as


    Last Name: Grisham
    First Name: John

    Last Name: Twain
    First Name: Mark



    Textbox in header would display: John Grisham; Mark Twain

    The authors would be displayed in the following format in the same order as listed in the subform datasheet.

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    You simply typed those numbers into textbox for demonstration purpose?

    That is concatenating data from multiple records. Requires VBA code. Review: http://allenbrowne.com/func-concat.html

    Use a query that joins tblBookAuthorJOIN with tblAuthors as datasource for the procedure.

    Why do that when they are viewable in the subform? The string of authors could easily be too long for textbox.
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