>>>>Hi Oscar,
>>>>
>>>>Have you tried putting the following in the combo box's keypress event?:
>>>>
>>>>

if nKeyCode = 32
>>>>    nodefault
>>>>endif

>>>>
>>>
>>>It stops dropping down but the incremental search also halts. Probably
>>>it just doesn’t work with spaces.
>>>
>>>Oscar
>>
>>Hmmm... you mean that you're trying to do an incremental search that contains a space?
>
>Yes, I'd like to serch for elements with one or more words.

In that case Oscar, you may want to take a look at my Auto-complete combo example here in the files section. It handles spaces without a problem.