>Hi Joe,
>
>>Does anyone know why the combo box display value disappears?
>
>Do you do a refresh at the end of your valid? That would refresh the controlsource be fore the valid finishes and updates the control source, so the control source is the original value.

also, if the controlsource length is shorter than the length of the string returned from the combobox, then the box will go blank. IIRC

There might also be a problem if the user typed something in that didn't exist in the combobox, but I am really not sure about that one, it might have been bad programming on my part.