Question

What I want to do is choose a option from a combobox- (i.e. a Person ID), and based on that option the form auto populates other text boxes (Person Name, Location, Number)

I have a table with the information. the table contains the person ID along with the the person’s information in each record. The table contains 1400 records.

Any EASY WAY to do this. All answers are appreciated. even difficult ones.

Answer 1

Add a subform whose record source is a query such as this …

SELECT [Person ID], [Person Name], Location, [Number]
FROM The_Table;

Then, from the subform control’s property sheet, select the main form’s combo box as the link master field and [Person ID] as the link child field. The result should be that the subform displays those additional details for the ID currently selected in the combo box.

That is an easy way to display the details. If your intention was to store those details again in another table, I’ll suggest don’t do that. Store only the ID and then if you need to display the details in other contexts, use a query to join (based on ID) the two tables.