Hi Marcia.
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>Or are you saying that you want the user to be able to update the bound control with a new value without having to add the new value to the control'd RowSource? If this is what you want to do, this is a different issue.

Yes.

When I leave the controlsource empty I have an empty value
but I want the user to have the posibility to search an name

I use for adding an new record a command button
with a click event "append blank"

Ben