the combobox control in excel vba does not appear to support the ItemData
property. How can i accomplish the equivilent use with the combobox in excel
vba? I am feeding the combobox from a database, and need to populate both the
text value and the Primary Key ID number into the combobox from my query. How
is this accomplished in excel vba?

Hi

Based on my research, the ItemData is used to get the data based on the
index.
e.g.
Label1.Caption = "Empoyee #" & _
CStr(Combo1.ItemData(Combo1.ListIndex))

VBA controls has different implement with the VB controls. The VBA Controls
ComboBox did not have the ItemData property.
We will find that we will add two columns into the combobox, so that when
we change the BoundColumn, the ComboBox1.Value
will change to different column.

I think you may try to run the code below.
Private Sub OptionButton1_Click()
ComboBox1.BoundColumn = 0
Label1.Caption = ComboBox1.Value
End Sub

Private Sub OptionButton2_Click()
ComboBox1.BoundColumn = 1
Label1.Caption = ComboBox1.Value
End Sub

Private Sub OptionButton3_Click()
ComboBox1.BoundColumn = 2
Label1.Caption = ComboBox1.Value
End Sub

Private Sub ComboBox1_Click()
Label1.Caption = ComboBox1.Value
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
ComboBox1.ColumnCount = 2
ComboBox1.AddItem "Item 1, Column 1"
ComboBox1.List(0, 1) = "Item 1, Column 2"
ComboBox1.AddItem "Item 2, Column 1"
ComboBox1.List(1, 1) = "Item 2, Column 2"
ComboBox1.Value = "Item 1, Column 1"
OptionButton1.Caption = "List Index"
OptionButton2.Caption = "Column 1"
OptionButton3.Caption = "Column 2"
OptionButton2.Value = True
End Sub

Also if you are using ADO to access to Database, then I assme you are using
Recordset.
So we can use recordset's filter function to filter the PK, so that we now
have one record, because the PK is unique.
Now we can retrieve the columnx to get the data we want from the Recordset.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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