Create yourself a container with the controls in then they will always be there. You could expand this to have properties/methods on the container to do the work for you.

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>Nigel,thanks for your reply.
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>This was something I was trying to avoid, because it means for all lookups, I need to fields on the screen, the 'Code' and the 'Description'.
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>Have you come across any Active-x controls that would have the functionality I'm looking for ?