Hi Greg.

>I have a combobox on a form with the control source as table.field . The style is dropdown combobox. I also have items in its list. When I enter a value in the combobox instead of choosing one from the list it doesn't get saved to the table. If I choose a value from the list the item gets saved. Why doesn't the keyed-in item get saved?

Because you have to take some action to add the new value to the combo's RowSource like in the following example. Note, this example assumes a bound column of 2, boundTo = true, RowSourceType = Alias and RowSourceType = ClntType.
This code goes in the combo's valid:

LOCAL lnRetVal
IF This.Value > 0
* Do Nothing
ELSE
  IF !EMPTY(This.DisplayValue)
      SELECT ClntType
      *** Get new PK for the Client type
      lnRetVal = GetKey('CLNTTYPE', 'CL_TYPE')
      IF (lnRetVal > 0) AND (lnRetVal <= 2147483646)
          SELECT ClntType
          INSERT INTO ClntType (Cl_Type, TypeDesc) VALUES (lnRetVal, This.DisplayValue)
          =TABLEUPDATE()
          THIS.Requery()
          THIS.Value = lnRetVal
       ENDIF          
   ENDIF
ENDIF
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Marcia