>Ok, so the properties of my combobox are as follows:
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>Control Source: m.customer (I'm not buffering directly to a table, but APPENDING BLANK etc from the save button of my form)
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Name: CmbCCustomer
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>Row Source: select * from customers into cursor tmpcustomers order by customer readwrite
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>Row Source Type: 3 SQL Statement
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>Style: 2 Dropdown List
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>in my CUSTOMERADD form I'm doing the following: (some of which is probably not needed):
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>IF !SEEK(ALLTRIM(thisform.txtCCode.Value),"customers","customer")
> INSERT INTO customers (customer,companyname) VALUES (thisform.txtCCode.Value,thisform.txtCCompanyName.Value)
> INSERT INTO tmpcustomers (customer,companyname) VALUES (thisform.txtCCode.Value,thisform.txtCCompanyName.Value)
>ENDIF
>thisform.Release
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>Maybe just adding into the CUSTOMERS file & then requerying the combo would be better than adding into my cursor for the combo ?
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>Rob
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Yes, you don't need to add it in the tmpCustomers. I always just use RowSourceType - alias, not the SQL.