I changed a record on a form, but the change wasn't used by a subsequent action?

Microsoft Access saves changes only at certain events (like close the form). We have added triggered saves to save the data more frequently. You can trigger the early refreshing of data in a number of ways: Click refresh on the View menu; on a multi-record form, toggle ahead (or back) one record. Then, the data will be saved and the next transaction will include it.