Hi Dorris,

1. Add NOFILTER at the end of your select (you can also probably just use one variable for your WHERE condition).

2. I prefer to use RowSourceType = 'Cursor" and only select the columns I need. That's personal preference, but I found cursor type to work best for combos.

>Hey Happy Peoples
>
>I've got the following coming out of a LostFocus on a textbox
>

>  Select * From Officer ;
>    WHERE Alltrim(Upper(LASTNAME))+Alltrim(Upper(FIRSTNAME)) = Alltrim(Upper(lname)) + Alltrim(Upper(fname)) ;
>    INTO Cursor Countit
>  thisform.lblSelectPerson.Visible = .t.
>  WITH thisform.cboSelectPerson
>      .RowSourceType = 6
>      .RowSource = "Countit.lastname, firstname, DOB, empcnty"
>      .ColumnCount = 4
>      .ColumnWidths = '150,150,75,150'
>      .visible = .t.
>      .ListIndex = 1
>    ENDWITH    
>

>
>Now, this is the same code (with different form element names, of course) I'm using in several places within this application. The problem is that the combobox is showing blank, and there is nothing to 'drop down'. Why is this combobox not behaving like the others?