>>>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.
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>I just did an experiment using the type() function to verify results. This seems to be correct. If the value is bound to a numeric field, it's type appears to be numeric.
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>Jim...???

I only discovered this by accident by the way