>I’m populating the display values of a drop-down list from a cursor.
>
>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.RowSource=""
>SELECT nSpCatKey,cSpCatName FROM SponCategory ORDER BY cSpCatName
>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.RowSource="Q_SponCat.cSpCatName"
>
>.... I understand why it’s doing this but I don’t know how I can display the values in alpha order and still display the right value. I’ve tried setting BoundTo=.t. but then the field is empty.

For alphabetical order try

SELECT cSpCatName, ;
    nSpCatKey, ;
    lower(cSpCatName);
    FROM SponCategory;
    ORDER BY 3

Then Bound your Combo to Column 2

This will display your character field to your users and save the numeric key in your table. HTH