>Is there an easy way to compare something to the value of all the items in a combobox, or do you always have to take the count and go thru and compare to each looping thru each one? Just wonering if there is a shortcut to do the comparison to all values in the combobox.

It depends on what is the RowSource for the combobox. If this is an array, you can loop through array, if this is a cursor, you can scan through a cursor.