Steve,
Thanks for your reply. Your suggestion is what I finally settle on. It seems to work pretty well.

regards,

JME

>Hi James,
>I usually do that by setting the value of the control to the contents of the bound column in the top row.
>I think you can also do it without changing the value by setting ther FirstElement property to 1 after populating the control.
>Good luck,
>Steve
>
>>Hello all:
>>
>>How do I ensure that long combobox lists display with the first item in the list shown? VFP comboboxes tend to show the bottom of a long list.
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>>TopItemID and TopIndex are not available since they are read-only (despite the documentation's claim that they are read/write at runtime)
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>>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>>TIA