>>>Of course then I do a requery on the view. Even entering your sugggestion directly while in the RUN QUERY of the view designer doesn't work.
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>>>I'm baffled... but thanks for tryin'!
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>>IN doesn't work well for that technique - have you tried INLIST()?
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>I solved it by using 3-SQL as the rowsourcetype and then using the '$' operator.
>Since INLIST() isn't a choice in the view Designer, I didn't try that method.

No, you have to do that by code; it works just like the '$' operator for lists of items, except it is optimizable, so could be faster...