Hi Michael,

PMFJI, the displayvalue should show correctly, but the .value property won't and the value won't be saved in the view.

Look at the file Mark suggested. It will add the missing value to combo's list so it will work the way you want.

hth

>Maybe I'm the confused one.
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>There's no problem loading the combo with a 5 item picklist or binding the combo to a view field. What i'm unsure of is how to do both simultaneously. I've only ever used an unbound combo for picklists, or a bound combo listing the data in the rows of the bound field.
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>I guess the confusion comes from the idea that i've never tried a combo bound to one field with another rowsource. If I were to refresh the view, and the field value was not in the list, would the combo.displayvalue correctly show the field value? (I will test this)
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>Thanks for the direction...