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Need to pull Combo Box Info and Populate Fields from Access (or SQ

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MarieJ - 29 Oct 2007 17:58 GMT
Hi all,

I need to populate a combo box with information contained in an Access
database.  Based on the choice picked in the combo box list, I need to have
information inserted into a word form.  For example, the combo box has the
person's name (actually contained in FirstName and LastName fields, and I
would need them Lastname, Firstname and sorted by Lastname).  When I pick the
person's name, I need the name (FirstName LastName), employee number,
department and office fields to be populated in Word form Text fields.  Can
someone point me to a website that can show me those steps, or can someone
help me out?  I found how to populate the combo box with one field from the
mdb, but don't know how to get the rest of the information based on the
choice.

Also, is it possible to do the same thing from a SQL database as well as
Access?

TIA VERY MUCH!

MarieJ
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 29 Oct 2007 20:42 GMT
The information that you need is contained in the following:

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
   Dim db As DAO.Database
   Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
   Dim NoOfRecords As Long
   ' Open the database
   Set db = OpenDatabase("D:\Access\ResidencesXP.mdb")
   ' Retrieve the recordset
   Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM Owners")
   ' Determine the number of retrieved records
   With rs
        .MoveLast
        NoOfRecords = .RecordCount
        .MoveFirst
   End With
   ' Set the number of Columns = number of Fields in recordset
   ListBox1.ColumnCount = rs.Fields.Count
   ' Load the ListBox with the retrieved records
   ListBox1.Column = rs.GetRows(NoOfRecords)
   ' Cleanup
   rs.Close
   db.Close
   Set rs = Nothing
   Set db = Nothing
End Sub

To get the information from the individual columns of the selected record,
you make use of the .BoundColumn property as in the following:
This routine loads a listbox with client details stored in a table in a
separate
document (which makes it easy to maintain with additions, deletions etc.),
that document being saved as Clients.Doc for the following code.

On the UserForm, have a list box (ListBox1) and a Command Button
(CommandButton1) and use the following code in the UserForm_Initialize() and
the CommandButton1_Click() routines

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
   Dim sourcedoc As Document, i As Integer, j As Integer, myitem As Range,
m As Long, n As Long
   ' Modify the path in the following line so that it matches where you
saved Clients.doc
   Application.ScreenUpdating = False
   ' Open the file containing the client details
   Set sourcedoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="e:\worddocs\Clients.doc")
   ' Get the number or clients = number of rows in the table of client
details less one
   i = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Rows.Count - 1
   ' Get the number of columns in the table of client details
   j = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Columns.Count
   ' Set the number of columns in the Listbox to match
   ' the number of columns in the table of client details
   ListBox1.ColumnCount = j
   ' Define an array to be loaded with the client data
   Dim MyArray() As Variant
   'Load client data into MyArray
   ReDim MyArray(i, j)
   For n = 0 To j - 1
       For m = 0 To i - 1
           Set myitem = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Cell(m + 2, n + 1).Range
           myitem.End = myitem.End - 1
           MyArray(m, n) = myitem.Text
       Next m
   Next n
  ' Load data into ListBox1
   ListBox1.List() = MyArray
   ' Close the file containing the client details
   sourcedoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim i As Integer, Addressee As String
Addressee = ""
For i = 1 To ListBox1.ColumnCount
   ListBox1.BoundColumn = i
   Addressee = Addressee & ListBox1.Value & vbCr
Next i
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Addressee").Range.InsertAfter Addressee
UserForm2.Hide
End Sub

The Initialize statement will populate the listbox with the data from the
table and then when a client is selected in from the list and the command
button is clicked, the information for that client will be inserted into a
bookmark in the document.  You may want to vary the manner in which it is
inserted to suit our exact requirements, but hopefully this will get you
started.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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