>>I thought I had this licked. I set it up as you suggested except I left both columns visible. This is the same way the builder did it. It seemed to work OK on the form. It displayed the names correctly and changed them Ok when the box was operated. Then I discovered that the value being stored is the wrong value. Even though the name displays right, the value stored into the table does not match the name ID. It appears the value being stored is the name's position in the dropdown list rather than the value in the second column. BoundColumn is set to 2. It works the same way with the cursor sorted or not sorted. Any more thoughts?
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>Ah, yes, the old problem with numeric values. In VFP 3, this required key fields to be of type character, as a workaround.
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>With the advice Çetin gave you (introduced in VFP 5, IIRC), the problem is solved.

Very good. Thank you Cetin & Hilmar.