oooook...cool. I did come up with another plan I'm going to try in the meantime. Anyway yer book should be getting to my house about the same time I do..hehehhe...(it's on it way!)

>Hi Victor.
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>>> ummmm...lemme get this straigt, you know a way around this problem and if I wanna know I gotta buy yer book? I've heard plenty of good things about the book, and someday when I'm not 1800 miles away from home at a client-site trying to resolve some problems I'll get it..but in the meantime I still would like to find away around the problem I'm having. <<
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>I certainly did not mean to imply that you had to buy our book. You asked for a solution to your problem so I gave you the only reference I know which specifically addresses it.
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>I understand all about being miles from home and extremely busy because I am as well. I simply cannot post all of the code from the combo class in the book that does this has half a dozen custom methods and I just do not have the time to go through and post everything.
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>The basic concept is that you unbind the combo behind the scenes and store the controlSource to a custom cControlSOurce property. You then have to manually update the combo's ControlSource from its Value (call from its Valid) and upodate its value from its ControlSource (call from its Refresh)
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>HTH.