Hi Marcia,

Interesting... Thanks for the tip
(I thought I had tried it and it wouldn't let me do it - oh well learn a new thing every day!)

Thanks

Will

>Hi Will.
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>>> If the combo is in a grid you should not be able to set the controlsource anyway (it's forced to be the same as the grid's column data) <<
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>Actually, this is not true. I use a trick all the time to have drop down lists in my grids with column.sparse = .T. where I set the column controlsource using an ( IIF( SEEK.... ) ) and then set the combo's control source to the foreign key in a lookup table.
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>Marcia