Dian, If you look on your form's (or control's) property screen there is a tab for Events. What you can do is write a VBA procedure that will kick off when you update the field. This way you can populate additional fields based on the one just updated. James -----Original Message----- From: Dian Chapman [mailto:dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:43 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access - Help getting related fields to show :VSMail mx4 >Then when you make your selection in the combo box, you use an after update event to update that field with current data. Thanks for the info, James. Yes, Beth Melton also checked it out for me and the concatenation thing sounds very familiar with how I once did it before. I WISH I could find the DB I created several years ago that was very similar to this, but it's off on some archive CD and I wasn't able to find it first pass, so figured it might be faster to find out how to do it again. As for the other part...Beth mentioned that I need to run a query to get the price to show up. I'll have to think about that one when my brain is back to this issue tomorrow. But what do you mean with your statement above? What's an "after update event?" Do you mean a VBA procedure? Or is there some feature/option to do what you're talking about? If you could provide me a little more detail on that one, I'd appreciate it. (And sorry it took me so long to get back to this...this week is nuts with my daughter letting me know she's moving back home this week!<sigh>...and Greg flying off to Ohio to visit his folks. Which is why I'm sleepless in Chicago tonight! He had a little engine trouble on the way out...so I'm going nuts trying to think straight until he's safely home tomorrow!!) Cheers! Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant, Instructor Microsoft MVP & MOS Expert Certified Free MS Tutorials: www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way, thru video! www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James LaBorde Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:45 PM To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [mso] Re: Access - Help getting related fields to show :VSMail mx5 Dian, You have a couple of options to accomplish what you want. The first option is to simply concatenate your fields in the source for your drop down. Then they will be displayed each time. This works but is probably not the best option in your case. The second option, and mush more sound with what you are doing, is to add an additional field on your new table to list the price at the time of sale. Then when you make your selection in the combo box, you use an after update event to update that field with current data. This will allow you to view both the product name and the price when the sale was made. Hopefully this gets you going on the right track. If not, try to guide me more in the direction of what you are thinking and I will do my best to try to get you there. James -----Original Message----- From: Dian Chapman [mailto:dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:37 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access - Help getting related fields to show :VSMail mx5 Okay...here are some screen shots. Pls realize that part of the problem is that I don't know what the problem is here! So if there's more info that would help, please let me know (Ray...or anyone who knows the Access GUI better than *I* do!) Again, the problem here is that I can easily join up and pull whatever data I need to display in a Word form or ASP page, but trying to demo the relationships through the tables to explain this process to someone is making me nuts. And it's something I need to do/understand...so I can explain it to others. TIA... http://www.mousetrax.com/dian/access.htm Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant, Instructor Microsoft MVP & MOS Expert Certified Free MS Tutorials: www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way, thru video! www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). 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