As I said, I'm extremely tired - I've driven almost cross-country seven times this week and have to do same to go home today, that's why I'm leaving at lunchtime. My brain hurts :)

>Nigel,
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>In a combo the event that fires when the value changes is the When. Also, if the combo's rowsource is alias or fields there is no need to do a seek as the combo moves the records pointer by itslef, one anly needs a form refresh.
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>In addition, to the original poster, using a buffermode of 3 will cuase tableupdates to fire whenever the record pointer moves, you might want to consider using 5 as the buffer mode.