>>>>Hi Dorris.
>>>>
>>>>Call the Requery method of the combobox to force it to refresh its list.
>>>>
>>>>Doug
>>>
>>>Already tried that, no change. But now here's the kicker. If I pull just the firstname, lastname and cboSelectPerson (the combobox) fields off the form to a separate form (running the same code), it works.
>>>
>>>On the Original form I've tried:
>>>Requery - no change
>>>setting the RowSource to '' before setting everything - no change.
>>>changing the name of the combobox - no change
>>>
>>>I've walked the code and watched the underlying cursor get populated, so I know there are data to go into the silly thing
>>>
>>>I've got a combobox acting like there's an empty cursor behind it. click on the down arrow and nothing happens
>>
>>Did you check for any conflicts in identifier names? (i.e. make sure you don't have conflicts in names of alias, field names, variables, tag names, etc.)
>>For example, you might want to make sure that you don't have a table included into the project that has the same name as the cursor.
>
>nope, no reused names or tables. Just tried to replace the cbo with a grid and I'm seeing the same behavior. Code runs just fine, nothing shows
>
>At this point, I'm just trying to find something that will allow users to select a specific person, short of just browsing the cursor

I repeat my recommendation to change the select statement itself, see my earlier reply. Your Where condition is "dangerous", I don't understand why you stick to it.