Geoff,
Welcome the strange and wonderful world of grids:

1. Have you requeried the combo box after assigning the array as the rowsource?

2. Check the 'activecontrol' property - you may want to shift from combo to textbox when the cell doesn't have focus. Also, you may need to add the item to the array in the WHEN method. If this is the case, you may be better off with a cursor instead of an array that needs to be resized.

3. That's a weird one - VFP has something strange with this. Go to the grid properties and check "Highlight Row" to FALSE. Also, it won't happen if you have a dropdown LIST instead of COMBO.

HTH
Barbara

>Hello-
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>I am trying to have a combobox in a grid with no avail. The combobox is populated from an array so I have rowsource set to the array name (vex_arr) and the rowsourcetype set to array.
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>I am having a couple of problems that may be related. First, when I drop down the combobox nothing appears. Second, I need to allow the user to enter a value that may not be in the list. If the user enters a value not in the list, it disappears. Last but not least, only half of the font shows in the combobox (height).
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>Thanks for your help and it is much appreciated-
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>Geoff