>>Barbara and Nick:
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>>The problem I have is that I type a letter and get *no response*, no matter how long I wait. I gotta be doing something wrong . . . .
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>>THANKS for your help here.
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>>John
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>John: Check the "IncrementalSearch" property, and make sure it's TRUE. I don't know what the default is....
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>Barbara

I finally found out what the problem was with this combo box stuff. I can't do incremental search unless the Style property is set to 2 (drop-down). 0, the default, doesn't work at my house . . . .

Thanks to all of you for kicking in here and leading this horse to water!

John