查询MS-Access表单组合框

Question

as the title suggests I am writing SQL out of excel vba to query Forms contents out of a MS-Access db. The SQL works fine however, the fields where combo boxes are, the SQL returns their index instead of the text field.

I spent some time googling this but most of the results are asking how to display on the form in the combo box, I am just trying to return the text display form the combo box with my SQL.

I will go ahead and say the person who designed this did a bad job, and the tables relating to these drops down have nothing in common(the tables are just a list of the drop down values and ID's).

My question is what is the best way to return this value? Can I join based off the drop down index?

Answer 1

This link should help you get started.

http://access.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0031.htm

Something like this, I presume...

Forms!Mainform.RecordSource