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7.4

Combobox linked to database - Naming the combobox's appropriately.

Asked by ExtremeD in Microsoft Word, VB Database Programming, Databases Miscellaneous

Tags: Microsoft, Word, 2003, VB6

Hi - I hope it don't make this confussing.

I have various word documents with ActiveX combox's inside which are directly linked to a database which resides on my server.  At the moment, I'm only able to differentiate between one combox and the next by using the (Below) code.  Is it possible - I'm sure it is - to change the coding slightly so that instead of having the combox's populated by using (1), (2) etc... I could reference them by their actual name, i.e. (combox1), (combox2) etc...

Here's my code:
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Many thanks,
ExtremeD 
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Private Sub Document_New()
 On Error GoTo Document_New_Err
    Dim cnn As New ADODB.Connection
    Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset
    cnn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
             "Data Source=\\myserver\database$\staffnames.mdb"
    rst.Open "SELECT DISTINCT [staffname1], [staffname2] FROM tblStaffnames ORDER BY [staffname1];", _
             cnn, adOpenStatic
    rst.MoveFirst
    ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(1).OLEFormat.Object.Clear
    ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(2).OLEFormat.Object.Clear
    Do
        ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(1).OLEFormat.Object.AddItem rst![staffname1].Value
        ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(2).OLEFormat.Object.AddItem rst![staffname2].Value
         rst.MoveNext
    Loop Until rst.EOF
 
Document_New_Exit:
    On Error Resume Next
    rst.Close
    cnn.Close
    Set rst = Nothing
    Set cnn = Nothing
        ActiveDocument.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset:=True
    Exit Sub
Document_New_Err:
    MsgBox Err.Number & vbCrLf & Err.Description, vbCritical, "Error!"
    Resume Document_New_Exit
End Sub
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