Hi Mike

It's in the right-click event of my listbox (with all the birdnames) that I create the popmenu. When you select a language in the popmenu, I change the birdnames in the listbox while I keep all the captions in the 'normal' language.

The popmenu is only a fast and nice feature to se what a bird is called in other languages. We do have some languages here in Europe........

I can probably force the preferred language to appear as 1st item and that solves the first problem. I still have to find a alternative way to get my captions and controlsources ordered. It would be nicer (cleaner) to rearrange the fieldorder.

/Pierre

>Pierre:
>Is a popmenu required? If you could use a modal form that contains a listbox or dropdown combobox, that you populate with the preferred language as the 1st item, you could avoid manipulating the table.
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>Your project sounds quite interesting.
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>HTH
>Mike