Judy,
As Erik said, combos do not handle more than 200 items well - they often have strange errors as well as being extremely slow. If you're going to have more than 100 items (or even more than 50) use a grid with a text box for incremental searches. Look in the files section here, you should find several "Quicken type" textboxes which can be linked to a grid.

You can even have put a button on the form and have the grid made visible if the user doesn't find exactly what he wants typing into the textbox.

HTH
Barbara

>What's the difference in response time for a combo box based on an array compared to a table or cursor? The number of items is around 4500. I'm looking at an app that was built using arrays. I generally use tables or cursors. It works ok on the development machine, but on another test machine that is slower it seems very cumbersome.
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>Judy Scofield