David,

Set the boundColumn of the comboBox to 2, and leave columnCount on 1 if you don't want to show both columns.

>How can you setup a combobox so that the control source is not what is displayed in the control, only written to the table?
>
>For example,
>Combobox.controlsource = master.textid.
>Combobox.rowsource = table1.description, textid.
>When the combobox runs you should only see the values from table1.description and when selecting one of these descriptions the value of table1.textid should replace master.textid.