Hi Jim,

Bear with me as I am still on the steep part of the learning curve with VFP5. I am an old Cobol XBase fox 2.6 programmer.

After looking at your suggestions I think some more detail is in order. The rowsource array is created when the app is started and is used by other forms and even other pages in this particular form.

The combobox is set up as

Boundcolumn 2
Bound To .T.
Column Count 1
ControlSource table field name
First Element 1
RowSource Array name
Style 5

The combobox shows the namefrom first col of array and the table carries the id code from the second column.

This array is used in other pages of this multi page pageframe.

I have done a 'set step on' in the init and in the load of the form and in both cases the value of the table has already been changed.

I also tried to programatically change the controlsource from the activate of the page and that did not work because the value in the table had already changed.

I also did a breakpoint for the value of the field to stop when changed and the location of the stop was at the init of the combobox even though I have no code in that area.

Does this give any further insight as to a workaround of something I have not coded correctly?

Thanks again.

bb