query criteria from combo box on a form

I have a form with several combo boxes on it. I would like the value from
those combo boxes to be the criteria of a field in a query.

I made the form and added a button. The button triggers an event to open the
form. All of that works.

I added the following to the query in the criteria of the down field:
[forms]![selectlog]![logdown]
(the value of the combo box [logdown] = 3)
That worked.

I proceeded to the next field in the query where I have criteria
In the distance field I added the following:
[forms]![selectlog]![logdistance]
(the value of the combo box [logdistance] = 3)
(I thought that having the sign in the value of [logdistance] might have
been the problem so I changed it to 3

Neither of those worked. Both ways I received the following message:
"This expression is typed incorrectly, or it is too complex to be evaluated."

On my website (www.rogersaccesslibrary.com), are several small Access
database samples that might be useful. They all start with "CreateQueries".

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"Fipp" wrote in message
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I have a form with several combo boxes on it. I would like the value from
those combo boxes to be the criteria of a field in a query.

I made the form and added a button. The button triggers an event to open
the
form. All of that works.

I added the following to the query in the criteria of the down field:
[forms]![selectlog]![logdown]
(the value of the combo box [logdown] = 3)
That worked.

I proceeded to the next field in the query where I have criteria
In the distance field I added the following:
[forms]![selectlog]![logdistance]
(the value of the combo box [logdistance] = 3)
(I thought that having the sign in the value of [logdistance] might have
been the problem so I changed it to 3

Neither of those worked. Both ways I received the following message:
"This expression is typed incorrectly, or it is too complex to be
evaluated."

Roger I appreciate your feedback and I did look at your website and try
several of your applications. I am not great with this stuff and still can't
figure it out. If anyone else can help I would appreciate it. I am trying to
search everywhere.

Now I have gotten distance to work whith 3 being the value of the distance
field. Is there a way to have the value 3 and see it as an expression?