You can use ALINES() to parse memo fielld into an array and use that array as the rowsource for the combobox.

>What's the best way to fill a combobox drop-down list with lines from a memo field? The memo field has names of persons in it such as
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>JOE DOE
>MOE DOE
>JOHN DOE
>DODI DOE
>JANE DOE
>DOTTIE DOE
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>The controlsource property with be tied to a character field that holds a name CHAR 30.
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>Put names into array first or what?
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>Thank you.