Ken

Thanks for the response.

My background is in VBScript (Access and ASP), so my experience of Outlook
scripting is limited. Please could you expand on what you have written. How
would I go about doing this?

Thanks

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Set the value property in your form's opening code from the user property.

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"Rod Behr" wrote in message
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A drop-down box is assigned a list of values from an array:

Dim myArray(3, 1)
Set formPage = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages
Set ctrl = formPage("myForm").Controls("myControl")
myArray(0,0) = "Fred"
myArray(0,1) = 1
myArray(1,0) = "Jim"
myArray(1,1) = 2
myArray(2,0) = "Arnold"
myArray(2,1) = 3
ctrl.list = myArray

The control's list property is then set to the array. The control's bound
column is 2 (the integer value) and the number of columns is 1 to show the
string and not the integer value (primary key). The control is bound to a
user-defined field (myField).

Let's say I open the form, select "Arnold" and then close the form.

On re-opening, the drop-down control is blank (it's .list property is
correctly assigned, but it has no .value property). By unhiding the "All
Fields" form, I can see that the value of myField is 3, which is correct.

How do I go about getting the drop-down box to display "Arnold" when I
re-open the item?