I did two things, which appear to have taken care of the problem

(1) There was a controlsource on the combo which referred to the actual field in the table. I replaced that with a form property.

(2) I also did a requery on the combo as part of the "add" command button.

In combination, these seem to have taken care of the problem.



>>Naomi --
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>>That's exactly what I thought. That's not what's happening. And, the controls on this form are VERY simple -- nothing special going on behind the scene.
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>>Without using refresh -- the fields other than the combo show the old values, but you see the correct values when you click on the field. This I expected. The combo box still shows the original record, but does not change to the correct value when I click on it.
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>>When I DO use refresh -- the fields all show what had been the last record before I added a new record. Except the combo box, which is blank (but goes to that record when I click on it.)
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>>Curious, eh?
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>What if you remove the combo for some time? Would it work?