I don't want to populate it then because there will be too much data. I want to wait until the user has entered several characters and asks for the list so I can filter the data set.

Thanks,
Elyse

>This is probably too obvious, but could you populate it on GOTFOCUS? That's what I've done with slow-refreshing cbos.
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>HTH
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>>...whenever I try to populate a combo in the DropDown Event, strange things happen....