You're wrong here, David. (Or is it not politically correct to say? <g>) You can remove all system kind of messages using SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF, but this "opg. 1/57" message is still showing. It is combobox related and Sergey answered me in one of the messages that it's VFP bug that dates back several versions...

>Nadya,
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>That status message always shows the current workarea record status, it really doesn't have anything todo with cbos in particular. I think it's just coincidental in the case you cite below.
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>>I don't think it's related with the combobox RowSource. In most cases we're using arrays but I believe this message is shown anyway...
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>>I will check more closely, if it is RowSource related. Still, I'd rather not redo all my combos to use arrays in order to overcome this bug. I do not know how much efforts are involved to fix it. But I would be very grateful, if this message would not appear.
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