>Hello all. Another noob question.
>I have 2 fields. One is a text box, the other a combo box.
>The LOST FOCUS property of the text box assigns its value to a xVariable
>Then it populates (or tries to)the combo box with:
>thisform.combo1.rowsource="select names from table1 where names LIKE xVariable into cursor Z"
>In other words, I want that if xVariable is "GA", the combo box is populated with all the names that start with GA.
>I have tried several posibilities with no success. What am I missing?
>
>TIA
how about:

thisform.combo1.rowsource="select names from table1 where names LIKE " + xVariable + " into cursor Z"

However this will not work unless xVariable is public. Better to make it a Form Property:

thisform.combo1.rowsource="select names from table1 where names LIKE "+ ThisForm.xVariable + " into cursor Z"