>>>The weird behavior of your combo may come from other sources - are you sure the .boundcolumn=2, .boundto=.t. and that initially the value of the combo is a number? The third thing is important, because it'll convert your second column into strings if you leave the value to default (which is an empty string).
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>>Thank you for you response. I looked a the properties and .boundcolumn=2 and .boundto=.t. Not sure what you mean by "initially the value of the combo is a number?". I look at the array after form.load and the integers are converted to "Numeric". The problem is that the numeric value in the array -21474E+9 does not match the database value of -2147400000. I feel I need provide more information here. The data looks like this:
>>Cust
>>CUSTID(Integer) Name(Char)
>>-2147400000 Fred
>>-2147399999 Tom
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>>The ID is a foriegn key in orders
>>ORDERID CUSTID(Integer) DESC
>>1 -2147400000 Orginal Order
>>2 -2147400000 Backup Order
>>3 -2147399999 Orginal Order
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>>The form is the order form where the Customer is the combobox bound to Orders.custid field. The combobox array is loaded at the form.load
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>In the debugger, check what's the combo.value, is it 1 (as it would do if boundto=.f.), -2147400000 (as it should) or "-2147400000". In the latter case, find the .value in the PEM window and it probably has (none) there - just put a zero.

Displayvalue = ""
Value = -21474E+9 TYPE(N)