Ok I understand the problem now and yes I do agree with your suggestions.

Cheers,

>This is the problem, the only benefit is that the value will be preloaded with whatever is in the table / cursor if you set the controlsource to the field, otherwise the value of the dropdown list is "" (blank).
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>We could prepend the value with the proper value ahead of time. And this is what I suggested to the developer.
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>I just wanted to confirm that the controlsource being filled in was the problem with the interactivechange event firing...
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>And I think based on your answers, you tend to agree.
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>Keith
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>>I don't understand why you are setting the controlsource to a field in the table or cursor used as the rowsource. This seems to me to be the problem. Can you explain this for me.
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>>Thanx
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