>>>>I left out the part between the Select and the 'Visible = 1' where I check reccount() on the cursor and I've walked the code many MANY times and yes, there are records in the cursor. For testing, I'm using a lname+fname combo that has 5 records. This label and combobox only show when there are multiple selections
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>>>>And the ALLTRIM knocks out Rushmore even if it's part of an index?
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>>>What is actual index expression?
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>>ALLTRIM(UPPER(LASTNAME))+ALLTRIM(UPPER(FIRSTNAME))
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>You do realize that you can get unexpected match if Lastname+Firstname matches some other Lastname?
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>I don't think Index like that can be created in VFP 9 because of variable size of the index
>It should be

>UPPER(LASTNAME) + UPPER(FIRSTNAME)
>* and WHERE clause
>UPPER(LASTNAME) + UPPER(FIRSTNAME) = UPPER(PADR(m.LASTNAME, LEN(LASTNAME))) + UPPER(PADR(m.FIRSTNAME,LEN(FIRSTNAME)))
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Well, I changed the tag to PADR(UPPER(LASTNAME),25)+PADR(UPPER(FIRSTNAME),25), but it makes no change vis a vis the combobox not working, which is my original problem