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Old January 27th, 2010, 03:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
David W. Fenton
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Armen Stein wrote in
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You could prompt the user in the Not In List event to see if they
want to add a new city, but we don't want to slow down the data
entry process. So we just add it in there without asking.


I would say that there's little point in a combo box if you're not
going to inform the user that they've typed a value that's not in
the list. While you certainly get the value of Autocomplete in
nudging them in the direction of choosing something that already
exists (and also there's the problem of users not paying attention
and choosing the wrong autocompleted value, but there's nothing can
be done about that!), but I really think the user should be informed
that they've typed a value that's not in the list.

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