Control.Column Property (Access)
You can use the Column property to refer to a specific column, or column and row combination, in a multiple-column combo box or list box. Read-only Variant.
Syntax
expression .Column(Index, Row)
expression A variable that represents a Control object.
Parameters
Name |
Required/Optional |
Data Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Index |
Required |
Long |
A long integer that can range from 0 to the setting of the ColumnCount property minus one. |
Row |
Optional |
Variant |
An integer that can range from 0 to the setting of the ListCount property minus 1. |
Remarks
Use 0 to refer to the first column, 1 to refer to the second column, and so on. Use 0 to refer to the first row, 1 to refer to the second row, and so on. For example, in a list box containing a column of customer IDs and a column of customer names, you could refer to the customer name in the second column and fifth row as:
Forms!Contacts!Customers.Column(1, 4)
You can use the Column property to assign the contents of a combo box or list box to another control, such as a text box. For example, to set the ControlSource property of a text box to the value in the second column of a list box, you could use the following expression:
=Forms!Customers!CompanyName.Column(1)
If the user has made no selection when you refer to a column in a combo box or list box, the Column property setting will be Null. You can use the IsNull function to determine if a selection has been made, as in the following example:
If IsNull(Forms!Customers!Country)
Then MsgBox "No selection."
End If
Note
To determine how many columns a combo box or list box has, you can inspect the ColumnCount property setting.
Example
The following example uses the Column property and the ColumnCount property to print the values of a list box selection.
Public Sub Read_ListBox()
Dim intNumColumns As Integer
Dim intI As Integer
Dim frmCust As Form
Set frmCust = Forms!frmCustomers
If frmCust!lstCustomerNames.ItemsSelected.Count > 0 Then
' Any selection?
intNumColumns = frmCust!lstCustomerNames.ColumnCount
Debug.Print "The list box contains "; intNumColumns; _
IIf(intNumColumns = 1, " column", " columns"); _
" of data."
Debug.Print "The current selection contains:"
For intI = 0 To intNumColumns - 1
' Print column data.
Debug.Print frmCust!lstCustomerNames.Column(intI)
Next intI
Else
Debug.Print "You haven't selected an entry in the " _
& "list box."
End If
Set frmCust = Nothing
End Sub