Yes, that works now. Thanks! Now, since I don't have a controlsource, do you recommend that I put code in the interactiveChange event to record the change? Such as:
replace with this.displayvalue
Or maybe that should go in the valid event since the user could be typing in a new value.

As always your advice is very helpful to me.

>>>Use DisplayValue property (fire this code from form refresh utility):
>>>Thisform.Combo1.DisplayValue=table1.colorfield && might be "sky blue"
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>>Edward, it seemed to me that that should work, but it doesn't. In fact, it replaces the value in the table with an empty string. Can you think of what I might be doing wrong?
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>>Thanks,
>>Ross
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>It might be helpful not to use Combo.Controlsource property (clean it to none). After this it must work, at least it will not replace field value with empty string because such 'replacement' will be handled completely in code.