Combo boxes in grids are a real headache. What I eventually did was to use a textbox and a combobox in tandem. I set the textbox value from the combobox, and use the textbox as the default currentcontrol. In the textbox gotfocus, I make the combo the currentcontrol, and switch back in the combobox lostfocus. Actually it looks pretty clean and neat that way.

Alan

>Hey Jim!
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>Is it in a grid? I'm having the same behavior with a combobox in a grid. It's a relatively obscure piece of functionality, so I've just dealt with it. Sparse is set to .f., and the control shows up in each column, but it just doesn't show the value until it has the focus.