>Allan,
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>If you have the same cursor as the rowsource and the controlsource you are making your combobox insane. Any behavior is random at best.
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>View it this way, if the combo is rowsourced and controlsourced to the same cursor what happens when the user changes the selected item;
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>1) Does the combo update the current record with the new value (honoring controlsource)?
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>2) Does the combo move the record pointer to the new record (honoring the rowsource)?
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>3) Does the combo move the record pointer and then update the new record?
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>4) Does the comb update the old current record and then move the pointer to the new record?

The reason my other combo's were fine was because I had a custom form property as the contol souce (and not the cursor iteslf as I indicated). Once I fixed it up this morning it worked fine. By the way, there was no issue with updating records as this is just a dropdown list.