Sandy,

1) Why do you WANT the dropdown to be the same width as the combobox? How it looks on the screen is important, but isn't it more important to show ALL the data in the list fully?

2) ColumnWidth SHOULD work for this - Are you sure you've set your ColumnCount correctly?

3) Use the ALLTRIM() as you did, but add a Padr() to bring the total to a pre-specified number of characters. Vary this to get the width you want.

PADR(alltrim(value),20)

HTH
Barbara>Barbara,
>I hear you in terms of the alltrim but I used it out of desperation.
>
>I just cn't seem to get the dropdown list width to be the same as
>the width of the combo box.
>
>Sandy