>I have a Drop-down Combo whose RowSource is from a table providing an alphabetically indexed list of employee names. As long as the down-arrow button is clicked upon, and the user selects from the available names, everything is fine. However, when the user types a last name directly into the edit area, and the last name doesn't exist, the pointer always seems to go to the bottom, and then the associated records for that employee are displayed in a grid below. This is really not what I want for obvious reasons. If it went EOF(), I could test for that error condition in the ValidEvent of the cbo, but now I don't know what to do. In the meantime, I have changed the Style property of the cbo from 0 to 2 (Dropdown List) to disallow the edit area. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, CH.

You should make a choice: either you don't use temp relationships or you don't use table as combo.rowsource.