>>Yes, with rowsource of fields it was always so, even in DOS days IIRC. If that causes unwanted behavior, you can select the relevant fields into a separate cursor for that combo so that it doesn't affect an alias which you use elsewhere. If the records in that alias may change and you want the combo to reflect the change, well, requery it as needed.
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>Thx. Can't believe it's been around as long as that without being fixed since it's obviously not an intuitive or expected behaviour. Also can't believe I hadn't been hit by it before.....
>Anyway I've got a workaround in place and can now get back to using IDEs that work as expected (g,d&r)

You may want to recheck your expectations, I suspect the bug may be in there...