>>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.
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>Thanks, Dave - amazing how my words of wisdom are still around. Unfortunately so are my oh-so-public mistakes, I bet :-)
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>Barbara

Funny, isn't it, that we tend to remember people's mistakes more than their successes. :-) Especially in consideration of the huge volume ( and quality ) of information passing thru this site. :-)

Bill