There is no conflict here, just set BoundTo=.T. and BoundColumn to Id field.

>OK, guys ... so what, is the bottom line?!?!?! My RowSource has two fields, one that I display in the dropdown, the other is the ID field, which is numeric and which I *think* I want to bind the combo to. However, I'm slowly getting lost in conflicting information here. I guess someone is going to have to spoon-feed this to me <g>
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>Bonnie
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>>>>VFP3 does not allow to bind combo directly to integer.
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>>>To be more precise, if you bind a combo to an integer, the value you get is the combo.ListIndex, rather than the value of the BoundColumn. I lost quite a bit of hair over this one the first time I ran into it... :-)
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>>Yes, so it's safer to conclude that it does not allow :).