>I put a combo box into a grid. Since few rows will occur in the grid, >and >because I like the looks better, and now because the client requests >it, I >set Sparse to .F. in the column where the combo is. The problem is >that the >text in the current row disappears. If focus moves to another row, the >text >reappears. So I can never see what's in the combo for the current row. Sounds like a space problem. Try making the RowHeight larger, and see what happens. /Paul