Ok, I've changed the control source to a table CUSTOMERS.DBF and got rid of all reference to TMPCUSTOMERS

but it's still not working?

>>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.