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>>First of all, I agree wholeheartedly with Mike about combos from a UI standpoint.
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>>But if you insist, you need to use the Combo's Requery method.
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>What would I put in there? I know there are some situations where you have to do things like set a recordsource to itself to overcome a bug. Is this a similar situation?
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This is not a bug. The Combo only queries it's rowsource when it is first assigned (While it's initializing, in most cases). If you make anychanges to the rowsource cursor, you have to notify the combo to look at its source again. This is what the Requery method does.