>I have had users kick back a design becasue they are heads down typists and don't want to find a mouse for clicking on a combo box.
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>Form is for a physical inventory count.
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>Data entry is for 3 fields. Tag #, Part # and Count. Gota love that.
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>Anyway I forced part# fo be bound to the inventory file for it's lookup and it's not fast enough.
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>I was thinking of just letting them put in what ever they wanted and doing a validation run after the fact.
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>Any ideas on this issue?

You could leave the Part # as a textbox for fast entry (maybe give them a ... command button for doing lookups when necessary), then on the Valid event of the textbox, do a SEEK in the inventory file to validate the code. If this method is too slow then your idea of peforming validation at the end is probably best.