>>combo.Requery()
>>combo.Refresh()
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>Hi Nick:
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>Thank you for your reponse. I included the requery() and refresh() in the save button, while saving the new entries. regardless, when I went back to the combo to see if the new entry was there, I did not see it. when I closed the form and fired it again, the new entry was in the combo. So how should I handle this? TIA.

You should have a method in your form which populates the combo - the same code you're running from form.load now - and call that again. So just call that code once from .load, and next time from .save, that's all.