Yes, the combo does fix itself once you drop it down. We have run the debugger at this point, and verified the controlsource and the view field, and both are identical. But, the combobox.value still remains blank. (well actually if you put a watch on it, it shows the view value, yet remains blank on the form)

Let me verify the two again for exactness.

Thanks

>Ok, I misunderstood. So do you mean that the combo fixes itself when you drop it down manually? After issuing a refresh, what is showing in the box? The old value? Is it empty? Have you confirmed that the new value in the controlsource field matches exactly one of the values in the list?
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