Thanks Barbara,

Yes I am able to do an incremental search when setting the style to dropdown list. However when i do that, i am not able to add new items which is why i was using the dropdown combo style. let me look for Granor's textbox.

N.

>With a combo where the Style property is set to Dropdown Combo, you won't get an incremental search when typing in the textbox portion of the combo. You have to dropdown the list portion before that will work. With the Style set to Dropdown List, incremental search will work whether the list is dropped down or not. I believe there may be some third party versions of the combo that behave the way you want. Tamar Granor's autofill textbox is one that I think will do this. I think that's still available from the advisor.com web site.
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>>hi guys,
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>>i am trying to create dropdowns in VFP7 similar to those in other Windows program but i am failing. i want to be able for the user to either select from a list or enter a new value. so i am looking exclusively at combo boxes
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>>here is the problems. when the user types in a value, they can't see the matching records in the drop down. i would think if for example they typed in "STE", the would see "STEVE", "STEVEN" and "STEVENSON" and could either choose one of those three or type in a new one such as "STEPHEN". shouldn't the combobox be able to dynamically display the matching entries as the user types?
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>>thankx,
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>>n.