>>I checked the BoundColumn. I got rid of the ALLTRIM(). I tried using the SELECT in the combo.Init and directly in the combo.Rowsource, in which case combo.Rowsourcetype = 3. I even removed the keyfield from the SELECT and made sure that all SELECTed fields were character. I am still getting the ListID in the combo.Value. Oh, well, I'll just do as Mr. Booth says and use THIS.List(THIS.ListIndex,6). Since this combo won't have a controlsource, I'll have to do something in the combo.GotFocus to make it select the record in the rowsource which matches the record for that row of the grid. I should probably make the column with the combo have width 0 when not in "edit mode", and make it display something other than a field value when in edit mode, but not selected. What a pain. It almost seems easier to rip up my keys and make them characters.
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>Bret, I started up VFP3, made a combo from all 3 numeric fields from a table and ran it.
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>Rowsource:
>select str(amtdue,8) as amt, str(discount,5) as disco, str(tax,5) as ctax from defaults into cursor atemp
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>RowSourceType: 3
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>No problem. I changed the bound column and checked the value with debug and they were all character, and the correct value.
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>Maybe this will help.....
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>Barbara

it'll help me. i've been working w/ a novice programmer who noticed this. i hadn't run into it before because i don't use numeric fields in combos, but he was trying to and ran into this.