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string search in an Access combo box

I have a combo box on a form that displays a list of a text field with item numbers. All items start with a number and then alpha characters.

When I display the list on the combo box and try to type more than one digit to do the search and shorten the finding of an item, the combo box just picks the very first digit and gets the first item that starts with that digit, ignoring the rest of the search string.

If all members of the items would be alpha characters, this would not happen.

Any ideas about how to handle this situation and make it work?
Mar 8 '07 #1
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willakawill
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Hi. As far as I know the code governing this behaviour is unpublished by microsoft and, short of redesigning your own combo, there is nothing that can be done. I could be wrong
Mar 8 '07 #2

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