>>Sonali,>>VFP5.0 is faster with lists and combos, but that doesn't change the fact that they are a poor choice of control for dealing with 1,000+ Items.One advantage of comboboxes is that they can be display say the itemnameand the controlsource can be set to the itemcode. This is usuallyrequired when you are making parent-child entries say in order trackingsystem / inventory control package. For a textbox the value isdirectly linked to the controlsource so to acheive the same effectyou would have write a program which I feel could become rather clumsy ?Sonali

Sonali,

Could you hit enter a couple of times in your replies so your text is separate from the quoteback text?

All you need to do is build a textbox class that does what you want, once the class exists it is just a matter of dropping it on a fomr and setting its properties.