You could muck around with a textbox overtop the combobox, changing focus, etc. however I usually just change the rowsource to sort the inactive to the bottom of the list - they'll still show for their records, but aren't likely to get picked.
So drop the WHERE clause and use ORDER BY Active, RequestorName

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Joan Wild
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Hi Joan,
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, my boss' boss is adamate that the
list only show the active requestors (which is what prompted the change). Is
there a flaw with my code in the row source or is there a field property that
I need to change? Does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jim
> You could muck around with a textbox overtop the combobox, changing focus, etc. however I usually just change the rowsource to sort the inactive to the bottom of the list - they'll still show for their records, but aren't likely to get picked.
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Joan Wild - 30 Apr 2007 20:24 GMT
OK, then use your new rowsource that eliminates the inactive requestors. Create a textbox and overlay it on the combobox so that it takes up the space of the combo text area. Set its control source to the Requester's name. In the Got Focus event for the textbox set the focus to the combobox, so that the user can select from the limited list.
The textbox will display the stored value, even if that requestor isn't in the combo list.

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> Hi Joan,
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Jim Johnson - 14 May 2007 18:32 GMT
Hi Joan (or anyone else that can help),
I was able to accomplish my goals with your resolution. However, the field
I created to display all requestors is displaying with the numeric primary
key instead of the text with the user's name.
Can anyone help me to set this field to display the text and not the number?
Any advise you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
> OK, then use your new rowsource that eliminates the inactive requestors. Create a textbox and overlay it on the combobox so that it takes up the space of the combo text area. Set its control source to the Requester's name. In the Got Focus event for the textbox set the focus to the combobox, so that the user can select from the limited list.
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Joan Wild - 15 May 2007 00:48 GMT
The recordsource for your form needs to be a query that includes your main table as well as the tblRequestors. You can then include the person's name as a column in the query - bind your textbox to this field.

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> Hi Joan (or anyone else that can help),
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