Combo box not working

[Barry]

Hello,

I have an application that is having a problem with combo
box. The drop-down window is supposed to display a list
of values taken from a table entered via a different
form. However, the box's values do not display at all.
All of the other combo boxes work just fine, except this
one. Can anyone explain to me what might be the problem,
and what I can do about it? Thanks in advance to anyone
who replies.

 

[John Vinson]

Hello,

I have an application that is having a problem with combo
box. The drop-down window is supposed to display a list
of values taken from a table entered via a different
form. However, the box's values do not display at all.
All of the other combo boxes work just fine, except this
one. Can anyone explain to me what might be the problem,
and what I can do about it? Thanks in advance to anyone
who replies.

Might be any number of things. Check the RowSource property (it should
be a query including the field that you want to see), the ColumnWidths
property (the column you want to see should be the first nonzero width
column and it should be wide enough to hold the typical contents), the
BackColor and ForeColor propreties (they should be different, Blonde
on Blonde was a great album but not a good color scheme for forms),
etc.

You might want to just delete the combo and recreate it!

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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[Barry]

John, thank you very much for your help. Deleting and
starting over sounds like a good idea!