Hi Jimmy,

>if you're still there, i have one more problem to iron out. how do i get the combos to default to '0' at the beginning of each use.
>my rowsourcetype is set to 1-value, and my rowsource is '0,1,2,3,.....'

At the beginning? Does that mean when you start the form or when you open the combobox? I'm not sure. But wherever you want to do it, put

Thisform.Combo1.Value = 0

Or, if you are doing this in an event of the Combobox, VFP has another built in identifer "This" that refers directly to the object your in, so it oculd be:

This.Value = 0