help with finding part of a string

[Travis33]

I have a combo box that finds the record that I type in
this is the code I placed in the after update event

dim rs as object
set rs = me.recordset.clone
rs.findfirst "[Item number] = ' "&me! [combo2]& "'"
me.bookmark = rs.bookmark

This code works fine but I want to be able to type in part of the string and have it display alist of records that have
this substring in it.

can someone please help.

Thank You,

Travis

 

[RickSpr]

Where do you want to display the list? In the combo box? If you set the Auto Expand property of the combo box to Yes (the default), and use a Row Source that sorts the list entries, it pretty much does this anyway. The user can type a few characters, then drop down the combo box to see that it's positioned to the first entry that starts with the typed characters. Will that do?

Or maybe you mean you want to find records whose item numbers contain the typed characters embedded in them. In that case, you'll need a place to show the list. Using the combo box itself would be kind of awkward. What did you have in mind? Rick Sprague