[AccessD] Access 2007: Lookup Field Shows Correct Value Selected, But Not Displayed

Gale,

You may be interested in this article:
http://www.mvps.org/access/lookupfields.htm

Regards
Steve


Gale Perez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm normalizing a db to replace certain fields with lookup fields.  I used
> the lookup wizard and am storing an autonumber from the lookup table.  All
> updated just fine, except for one.  The old field is a text field consisting
> of the numbers 0-7.  I created a query to update the new field (in the
> example, 8 is the autonumber PK in the lookup table):
> 
> UPDATE mytable SET mytable.newfield = 8
> WHERE (((mytable.[oldfield])="7"));
> 
> But when I opened the table to verify the new field's data matched that in
> the old field, I saw that the new field showed nothing but zeros.  When I
> clicked in that field of a particular record, my dropdown box appeared, with
> the correct value selected - but it is not being displayed!   What the heck
> is going on?  Has anyone else had this happen?
> 
> I tried re-creating both the query and the field, and got the same results.
> 
> Thank you very much for any thoughts!
> Gale