>>If you want to use combobox as a navigation mechanism, use any rowsource except for fields and navigate to the selected record using seek or go to approach.
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>err well the seek approach errr when i add the code on interactive change
>and changes the value of the combo box
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>the combo box disables itself..odd

Don't use Fields as the recordsource for your combo, use something else. Also this combo should be unbound (empty controlsource).