>Try
>This.Value=This.List(1) in the init of each combo box - works for me
>Ashley
>
>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I have faced a major problem with VFP 5.0. I have several Combo boxes on the Form/PageFrame. All of them are bound to data with RowSourceType is set to 6 (Fields).
>>>> Problem I am having is, when I load the form, none of these combo show values at startup though there is a some value in Value property. It displays these values only if you set focus to it.
>>>> Is it a Bug or am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> BTH, I am using VFP's Standard Combo and no method is written.
>>>>
>>>>Bye
>>>>Jayesh
>>>
>>>Jayesh,
>>>
>>>Did you ever find a solution to this? I think I have the exact same situation you're describing for all my comboboxes, but have really just lived with it. But in some cases I really would like to have a default value instead of showing nothing.
>>>
>>>Sylvia
>>
>>Sorry for the late response, I didn't catch this thread at its origin, only reviewing it now.
>>
>>Is the length of the field that the combo is bound to shorter than the length of the field in the rowsource? This has caused this same problem for me until I pegged it.

Hi Ashley,
This doesnt accomplish what is needed. Sylvia was wanting a combo box to show the item in the list that corresponds to the value of the Value property of the combo box, not the the first item in the list.