Cetin:
I implemented your suggestion, but I must be missing something. The label displays the contents of the previous record. I've changed directions, and am now trying to get an incremental search on the 2nd column that is the 1-2 character code. I put what was to be in the label caption and put it in column 1. Incremental search works fine but on the wrong data. Any suggestions?

BTW, I had a real tussle with the control source of the combobox. I finally figured out that I need to do the following:

this.value = {value of Fieldname in the view}
this.controlsource = {fieldname in the view}

When I set the controlsource at design time, the boxes were blank until I went to the next record. If I came back to the 1st record, it now had the correct value. In Debug, I set a watch on COPTA (fieldname) and it was " ", while COPTB (the adjacent field in the view) was "DR" (correct) I've got that all working now, but I'd like to understand why I can't set controlsource at design time.

Thanks for your help!
Mike