Sergey,

Thankyou.. again. At least I know I'm not going mad - just looks like I'll have to roll my sleeves up and get stuck in. Thank you for the pointer.

Barry.

>Barry,
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>A combo box with style 0 allows user to enter new value but doesn't save it You've to write code to do that. Check Re: Combo box bound to an array Message #1281362.
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>>I'm almost embarrassed to ask but.... to date I have always used combo boxes with style 2 making it a dropdown list. However I now have a situation where I want to give the user a list of suggested values (as guidance) but allow them to input their own value if none of the suggested values is appropriate. I do want to save the new value to the control source, but do not want to save to the underlying rowsource table.
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>>I assumed I could do this with a combo box with style 0 allowing the user to type in their own value. Which they can. But, the user value does not seem to save to the control source? Am I missing something, or have I misunderstood the workings of a combo box?