The Forms toolbar does not have combo boxes! It has drop downs.
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"Jessica Jones" wrote in message
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Good Monday Morning!

Just to keep the information correct, I wanted to respond to and state
that
I definitely used the forms toobar and not the Controls toolbox with the
checkboxes and combo box. That is really what has me so frustrated.

Thanks Charles!

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

My guess is that the combo boxes and checkboxes you have working are
inserted using the Controls Toolbox rather than the forms toolbar.

The reason I asked about the number of records is that I use a
work-around
for working with a single record, but it won't work with 25. Try Doug's
solution.
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"Jessica Jones" wrote in message
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I am up for trying anything. I have minor VBA and VB experience. Right
now,
we have about 25 records that I need to merge.
Taking the information out of one program and using excel really only a
sa
middleware to add some more fields to be able to collect some
information.
Then, I wanted the online form to save the information as a delimited
text
file to be able to import into access.
I know this is a very long way around, most would say, import it into
access
directly and use those forms. BUT, the people who will do the data
entry
are
very afraid of access.

Thanks for your rapid responses. I really appreciate your time. I knew
there
had to be a reason my text boxes were misbehaving. Why do the combo
boxes
and
check boxes still work?



"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Yes, this is how it works. MailMerge and Online forms are mutually
incompatible. If it is protected you can't merge. After you merge,
your
fields are gone. Part of this, I'm sure, has to do with using
bookmarks
for
form fields. Bookmarks are lost in a mailmerge because they need to be
unique.

How many records are you merging into your form?
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"Jessica Jones" Jessica wrote in
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news I have created an online form that utilizes check boxes, text boxes,
and
a
combo box. The data source is an excel worksheet. After I merge the
data
into
the form, I protect the form. None of my text boxes will accept
focus.
The
check boxes work fine and the combo box works fine.

I will appreciate any help.
Thank you.