Thanks again John,

That did the trick. Actually, all I did was make the select statement in code and change the rowsourcetype of the listbox to 2(alias) and set the rowsource = alias. Works great.

I'll take another look at the premier membership.



>Ooops David ---
>
>Here is a transcript of a similar problem with a great workaround by Jim Booth in July. Jim, as always, came up with a great workaround:
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>>>Hi, could someone please remind me how to overcome the limitation of 255 characters in the RowSource property of a grid when using an SQL statement.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>Petras
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>>Petras,
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>>You could run the SQL in the form's Load event and set the grid to rowsourcetype of alias and put the cursor name in the rowsource.