>Hi all,
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>I have a combobox in a grid that is populated by 2 fields fr0om a table. One field is the unique key (which will be use to fill the destination table) and the second one is the value that I want the user to see (ex.: key=1,value=Box, key=5,value=Bag...)
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>My problem is that when the cursor gets on the cell the value disappears (it is there but it is not visible).The same happens after I select a value from the combo (it does not show). Once I leave the cell I see the value.
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>How could I prevent this?

First of all, you have to know that the displayed value of a combo is the first column, so what about table.value,key as controlsource and a boundcolumn=2.

Now for the other row of the grid check the sparse property of the column.

(hope i've understood your problem)