>Hi Tim ----
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>>>>Is it true that comboxes become too slow to use when its rowsource points to a file with many records in it?
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>>>Yes, it's true. Also, it greatly slows down user's interaction.
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>>Ah ha, so should I do something like use a listbox instead and have a textbox adjacent for user input?
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>Thats what I do but I found it becomes a bit impractical for tables of 20,000 records or more (I think due to the speed that the listbox populates, not the query).

Or a grid I guess. thanks