>Hm. Did Marcia's suggestion of adding the refresh() help?
>
>At what point and how do you check the listcount?

Actually, I had already tried that. No work'em. But....

I did find the problem, after simplifying with a test form.

I was using .listitemid instead of .listindex to force the list to where I want it. Don't know if that's the recommended way. But it works! The successful snippet is:

append blank
thisform.mycombo.requery
thisform.mycombo.listindex = 1  && table ordered on wono & blank value
                                &&  for wono makes this work
thisform.refresh

It seems like modifying .listindex is a trigger for getting the combo to synch up it's displayvalue,value and rowsource. Is that true?