Dorris,

I don't think you have to do this with the combobox. What is its rowsource and style?

In most cases it's enough to try to set its value to determine if the value exists or not.

>Rich
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>That's what I ended up going with, but things like this have always been an issue with me and combo boxes. With all the properties that mean ALMOST the same thing - why isn't there an easy way to do the equivalent of a SEEK in a table or an ASCAN with an array?
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>>Is this what you're looking for???

>>FUNCTION searchcombo
>>LPARAMETERS tcValue
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>>WITH myCombo
>>     FOR I = 1 TO .listcount
>>	IF .List[i] = tcValue
>>	    RETURN I
>>	ENDIF
>>    ENDFOR
>>ENDWITH
>>RETURN 0  && Not Found
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