Thanks Sebastian,

It must be great minds thinking alike, because that is what I am doing... but it seems a terrible waste. I was just wondering out loud if I was missing something really silly with the formatting of a collapsed combobox. Does this qualify as a bug, I wonder? LOL

Ric

>Hi, Ric!
>
>May be that comes from the numeric data type - try the following:
>- Extend your data source with a 3rd column containing cItemCode = STR(ItemCode, 2).
>- Place this new column cItemCode as first column in the combobox. Note: The contents of 1st column is always displayed in the textbox part of the combo!
>- Set BoundColumn to "2", because the "old" ItemCode column is now the second column of the combobox!
>- Set ColumnWidth to "0,xx,yy" or to "xx,0,yy" to supress on of the two ItemCode columns if the combobox is expanded!
>
>... and that's it - in principle <s>!
>Play something arround with this stuff and you will find the best way for yourself <s>!