>>With 0 for first we suppress displaying of combined expr. when list is dropped. When clicked only combined shows.
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>Worked great! Seems so logical and easy once you know it...
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>Just a quick follow-up question - It seems there is a limit of 254 characters in the combined column length; any simple way around it? As always, Cetin, thanks for your help...
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>Renoir

254 limit ? You mean for portion displayed in combo or SQL itself. If latter then workaround is to make it a memo field. If first I'm afraid no way directly with a combo :) Then you'd drop using combo this way and use 2 controls overlapping eachother, one editbox and one combo. For simplcity then do not make comining in SQL at all. After selection set editbox value, zorder. On gotfocus , zorder to back, set focus to combo. I know it's doable for I did it in the past with textbox+combo.
Cetin