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Richard Gioia 
Which course will explain how to create a combo box to fill in fields? I created this box, but I dont want to enter an employee number first.  I want to use first name or last name to find the record, then select it and have all the fields filled in.  Every time I do it, it fails.  Its like it cant use text as the look up.  Help!.  Where do I find the answer to this?
Richard Rost 
I would need to know more about what you're trying to do in order to answer this question properly. Are you just dealing with one table, or are you trying to pick an employee and fill in their information in some other table, like a time sheet? Sounds to me like its the latter. If that's the case, you need to learn about relationships. I start covering that in the Expert series. I do a little bit of using a combo box to select a value from another table in Access Beginner 8, but you really want Access Expert 1 for all the details. I see you've only completed up to Access Beginner 3, so I would say just keep learning. We'll get there.
Richard Gioia 
Hi all! I am a new student.  Above was actually my question. I am trying to use this for. To track employees that call out the day of their schedules work day.  I use the comp box to search the data base with all employee records. I want to search be first name, instead of employee number.  I then need the records to populate in this form with First Name, last name,  employee number, department, etc.
Richard Rost 
OK. Do you need to STORE all of that information in the (let's call it) MissingWorkF form, or just DISPLAY it? This conversation will be a lot more productive after you've taken the lessons on relationships. Usually you just need to store the EmployeeID in the second table. :)
Richard Gioia 
I will take the lesson first.  Yes, I want to store the info in the "call out" table. I will want to run queries later on to see the individual track records of those employees.  Thanks for your help - I will take the lesson this evening.

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