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Combo Box Question

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Minuet

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Dec 18, 2002
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CA
Is it possible to have a combo box that pulls up information from a record, but instead of pulling up information for each field in the form, it leaves certain fields (which I have specified) blank?
 
In the properties of your combo box click on the record source field and click on the elipsis(...) on the far right. This will allow you to make a query based on your table where you can specify the criteria you need. Hope this helps.
 
I work in a hospital and have a database which contains patient information. I pull up information on particular patients by typing in their unique chart number into a combo box. I would like to create a second form exactly like my main form. When I type in a chart number in my second form, I want it to take the patient information from the main form and display it in the second form, but I want it to look up only certain fields, and leave other fields (like a date field) blank. For complicated reasons, I need to enter near-duplicate records, and instead of typing in all patient information every time I make a new record, I want Access to automatically fill in most of the fields to save time. (I hope this makes sense.) Is this possible?
 
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