>Jim,
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>As usual, very helpful advice. Thanks. Some responses follow..
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>In response to my question about a control's value property...
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>>The value contains the value of the bound column of the combo, it is always a character string.
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Sorry to jump in, but if you set the .value property of the combo to (say) 0 (zero) in the properties sheet, you'll get a numeric value back.