>Now, ocassionally, when the view is empty, and I refresh the combo or requery the combo, the DisplayValue gets set to CHR(12)! I don't know why. It causes my check for empty to fail. [This happens on a couple of comboboxes, not just the problem one.]
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>I had to restore DisplayValue to the empty string after the default Refresh().
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Cheryl,

Don't check DisplayValue for empty, instead check for DisplayValue = Value, that will only be true if the combo has a valid value from the list.