You can get multiple columns in a combo box (well sorta) by setting tab stops in the control. Check the knowledge base for the article describing this, but it involves the SendMessage API call to set the column widths.

Hope this helps

Stan B.

>I just started using VB50 a week ago...
>I am coming from a VFP30 enviroment...
>I need to set up a form with a combobox to lookup a item table.
>I can do the whole thing fine exept that I need to display more than one column when I drop the list down.
>In access and VFP I had a columncount property to do this, I am failing to understand or to find such property in VB50...
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>Could somebody help ??
>
>TIA