>I have several combo boxes on a form. I selected an item from each combo box and did a save. I reopen the form, repopulate the combo box with the saved value displayed in the combo box display area and the original list items, driven by individual DB/tables, are available to choose from if I click on the down arrow for the combo box.
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>The problem is:
>When I tab through the form, some combo box displayed values change from their saved/displayed setting to a new displayed value without me opening the drop-diwn list. The new displayed value happens to be the one that is next in line in the drop down list below the one I had originally chosen from the drop-down list.

S6eve,

Make sure the controlsource and the list items are the same length. You cna get this type of behavior when the ControlSource is a character field of length 20 and the field in the rowsource for the cobmo is character length 18 (or any other shorter length.