Barbara,

>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?

Yes it is but most of the data is currently lost offf the right edge of the screen wjhile nmostly waht the yser sees is blanks.

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

ColumnCount is set by _tally whereas Columnwidth I'm setting to th ecoboBox width.

> 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)

No problems.

Sandy