OK, I finally got it to work like I wanted. Your most recent comments on binding the productID put me on the right track.

I set up a RowSource of 3-SQL and read the products table into a cursor. Set the bound column to the ProductID column (3) and set the control source to the orderitems.productid field. Interactive change event has a refresh() in it, and the Valid event has code to stuff the 'Colors' and 'Price' fields into their respective control values, followed by a grid refresh().

Do you see any potential problems with that?


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>Also, I think it was either this month's or last month's FoxTalk that had a wonderful article in it by our very own JimB about this very subject. You may want to check it out.
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I have that article, but it addressed methods that didn't seem appropriate for what I was trying to do.

>Tamar Granor also had an article in FPA june 1996 (I think...if not the exact month, it was close) about combo box basics. You can order back issues at www.advisor.com.
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I hope to order the set of CDs with prior year articles in them for lookup. I find that magazine to have lots of valuable info for someone at my level.

Thanks for your help


Neil