>-1 I've got the combobox working with an sql statement doing a select in the >rowsource. But how do I get the combobox to display all the first item that >begins with a '9' if the user types in a 9?

There should be several examples of a combo search class in the files section. If you can't find those I'll send you an example of one from FoxPro Advisor.

>-2 why subclass this if it needs to be tailor made for this specific app?

In case you need to use it in another app.