Yeah, that's what I thought but the monkey wrench here is that
>the table I use is a new temp file created every time with the SAME alias called 'somerecs' Hence, my code:
{tmpfil='tmp'+sys(2)+'.dbf'
>>>>use &tmpfil alias somerecs
>>>>sele somerecs }
>>>>
>>>>then the field phrase error message appears.
>>>
>>>Timothy, I hope you either maintain the same field names or at least reset Rowsource to new field names. BTW, you never dare to type here what's typed in your 'Rowsource' initially.
>>
>>In property sheet the rowsource line reads:
>>somerecs.lname,dob,ss_num
>>The rowsource type =Fields and of course the file struct is the same.
>
>Ok, let's separate the problems. When you start the form, do you really see lname as first column, dob as second and ss_num as third. Is this Ok for you?

All I see is lname in the listbox, nothing else. :(