Hi Jannette. I need a LOT more information than that in order to help you troubleshoot. Which list box? What lesson? What have you done so far? I love to help, but I can't read minds over the Internet. LOL :) I wish I could. That would be a neat trick.

I found it out there was no Id number in project.technicianId field so i went in and manually enter it question is there a way i can have a sollution based on the tech selected on project form that  it automatically enters the techid number in that field so i dont have enter manually all the time

Sure. Either put a combo box with your Technicians in the form header and use that as a default value, or keep the Technician form open and use that ID as your default value. Lots of ways to handle it.

it access security seminar lesson 8 i want to have a way where i dont have to enter the tech ID which is a number on my project table but is primary key for the technicain table. i need those number to be same on the the two tables to have the list box work

What is the Project table? That's not something from class. Is that in your database? I assume it's like the Service table that I work on. You want to add a Technician to that? If you don't want to keep re-entering it, then you can put an unbound combo box in the Form Header where you pick it once and then every time you add a new record, you can reference that as your default value. See this tip video.