In addition to what others have said, check out the Help file on _DBLCLICK -- set its value much higher than the default and incremental searching behaves like you would expect - set it back to default when finished.

>I have a 10 digit product_id field which is "0" padded.
>when a new product is added i automatically assign
>the new product ID. When the users are looking up the product_id they scroll through the list with the mouse and pick the one they want.
>
>I need to change this so they can just type in the combo box the
>product_id they want. How do you make the combo box editable so it works both ways scroll down or user input.