>>>Is there an easy way to populate a combo box with the contents of a directory? So then whatever file the user clicks on will be captured to a var for future reference?
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>>Timothy,
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>>Set the rowsourcetype to Files and read the value property to see what the user seleted.
>Right., thanks
>Also can I have it so that only '.dat' files show up?

Timothy,

Put the mask in the rowsource property as *.Dat