What I really trying to do is automatically filter records when the form is opened. Any help?

What criteria are you trying to filter on?

The form has a combo box. The criteria is based on particular data in this combo box.

Are you asking how to filter the form in general, or how to get it to be filtered when the form opens? If it is when it opens what default value are you trying to display?

I am trying to get it filtered when the form opens. Basically, I have a combo box called Status. The data for that box is either open or complete. I only want to show the records that have a status of open.

Okay cool, that makes sense.

Probably the easiest is to set the filter property for the form in its property box (also set the filteron property to true) and then in the combobox's After_update event, set it again to reflect the selection in the combobox, something like Me.filter = cboStatus (I think that works).

What goes into the filter property is the where clause of a query but without the word where, something like:
status = "open"

Good Luck!