>>Naomi
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>>Just quickly trying:
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>>REPLACE FRUITS.GROUP WITH THIS.DISPLAYVALUE
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>>does indeed do what I wanted.
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>>But, out of interest and to satifsy my curiosity, without putting such code into the Valid of the combobox, how would user inputted text into the text portion of a combobox ever be retained in the bound control. I assumed that the bound control would simply accept the value typed in. Does the default behaviour of the valid clause of a combobox automatically check to make sure the typed in value is in the list of supplied values?
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>>Thanks for the pointer
>>Barry Sutton
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>By default it doesn't get saved. You have to implement code to save the value in the underlying source of the combobox. That code depends on the source type.
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>I think Marcia posted a version of such combobox, but in my quick searches this is the best result I found.

Thanks - I have always used comboboxes to provide fixed values only and this is the first time I have used it as a true combo-box. I don't recall having seen anywhere that warns about this non-intuitive behaviour. But you are clearly right and thanks to Marcia for providing the necessary class etc.

Tks
Barry Sutton