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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:02:26+00:00

I’m pretty new to Access, so this may be very easy or obvious to

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I’m pretty new to Access, so this may be very easy or obvious to some, or maybe it can’t be done at all. I have searched this site, but I may not even be using the proper keywords. So far, I haven’t found anything that helps me do what I am trying to do.

I have a form with a continuous subform in it. I have an unbound txt field on the main form called txtPO_num. In this form I run a query that displays all records that meet specified criteria in the continuous subform. I also have a control in the subform called PO_Num. My question is, how do I get the main form field value in txtPO_num to populate the PO_Num control in only the records displayed in the subform?

If there is another way to accomplish this I would be interested in knowing that too.

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    Execute an UPDATE statement which targets the same records which are included in the subform.

    You have a SELECT query with a WHERE clause which identifies the records included in the subform’s recordset. Build an UPDATE statement using the same WHERE clause. For example, if the SELECT were …

    SELECT field1, field2
FROM YourTable
WHERE field2 = 'foo';

    … the UPDATE could be …

    UPDATE YourTable
SET field1 = 'new value'
WHERE field2 = 'foo';

    Execute the UPDATE statement using the DAO database object’s .Execute method.

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