>Thanks Larry, that's exactly my thinking. The tricky part is on append. the entry box for stocknum is a dropdown, which drops down when you click in it to enter the new stocknumber. I've thought of laying a textbox under the dropdown, bind them to the same field, and use the visible property to determine which is used in each circumstance. Do you have a better suggestion?
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It's a personal preference for mew that I don't use combo that much. If I need a drop down, I use a listbox (which doesn't have the capability of typing new entries in). So saying that, I think having two controls and manipulating the visible property is a sound decision.