the data field is wide enough and i am storing field in the control source,
this is strange I am running this in developement mode and live at the same
time and both have the same problem on the same combo box, except the items
are different that do not appear, like I said before as soon as the combo box
looses focus the text is displayed. It just does not display when the combo box
is closed. and that is only on certain items. I've deleted the items out of the
database and added them back in and that didn't seem to help.