Actually.... manually adding items to a combo is more time intensive than using a SQL statement or table/fields as a rowsource.... Combos and lists are MUCH faster than they used to be.....


>Yes, there are cases where you want to manually want to populate a combobox. AS you know when a combobox lists more than a few hundred items form a lookuptable bound with the rowsource, it will be getting very slow when refreshing. Manually adding values do not have this problem as much.
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That said, you are describing a different issue altogether from what Ed and I were attempting to discuss...<s>