John,

>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.....

I now it takes more time to initiate the combo, but it's MUCH faster when refreshing when it contains lots of items.

>That said, you are describing a different issue altogether from what Ed and I were attempting to discuss...<s>

I know, I just wanted to point out that add(list)item can be a valid method of populating a combo from a table/cursor.

Walter,