>>This is an old bug, from VFP5 and 6; Q190267 was the KB number assigned to it.
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>>I somehow thought it was fixed - but it wasn't. I have a bunch of combos bound to two column arrays where some of the values are negative or zero (bound column is 2, column 1 contains descriptions, .bound=.t.). No matter what I do, the displayvalue remains blank for .value<=0... which isn't exactly helping.
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>As a work-around, what if you use transform() to convert to string the second column of the array? Then add a third column that has the numeric value and use it else where (or bound the third column and convert it to strings).

Could be much simpler - unbind the combo, then handle the binding manually. Which is a PITA, but not that hard. Combos and listboxes convert everything into strings in the requery(), where they copy the rowsource into their internal array.