>>Two part question.
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>>I have a grid with a column that contains a combobox. The combo contains user friendly description, e.g. "14-Iowa". The value I store in the table will be the number 14. If I set the column to sparse the 14 is displayed instead of the nice description in the combobox. Anyway to get it to diplay with sparse on?
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>I think you have to change .BoundColumn.

Thanks Hilmar.

My combo has two columns, "14-Iowa", and "14". The combo is .BoundTo = .t. and the bound column is 2. I don't want to store "14-Iowa" in the table. What I want to do is display "14-Iowa" when that cell does not have the focus, instead of 14.

Dan