>Hi all,
>I'm new hear and I hope I can get the be helped. I have a combobox which has
>numeric values. Th problem is when I try getting the value displayed on the
>combobox I get different results. Eg.
>
>THISFORM.combo1.VALUE
>
>returns the position of the value that I want but NOT the value that is
>displayed in the combo box.

Assuming this is VFP 5 or above, set the Combo.BoundTo property to .T. to get the value returned properly. If it's VFP 3, it's a very involved answer, that took multiple pages to explain in FoxTalk back in the middle of '96.