Combobox always shows the first column, when it's not drop-down. So, your only choice would be to re-arrange arays's columns or use Sergey's approach.

>>>In the present case I am stuck with using the 2nd column for display and the 3rd column as the data to be bound to the control source. How do I do that?
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>>To rearrange fields displayed, select:
>>Combobox.RowsourceType=6 and specify the fields in order as follows:
>>Combobox.Rowsource=tablename.field3,field1,field2,etc...
>>Specify the field you want to populate the ControlSource in the Value property as:
>>Combobox.Value=tablename.fieldname
>>I think this should work for this specific problem.
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>Thanks for your response, Irv. I meant I am stuck with a three column array where the first column is a throwaway, the second column should be shown in the dropdown and in the combobox itself, and the third column has the actual key to be saved in the controlsource.
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>I found how to show the second column in the dropdown:
>Combobox.ControlSource = "Table.Field"
>Combobox.BoundColumn = 3
>Combobox.RowsourceType = 5
>Combobox.Rowsource = "Thisform.aRows"
>Combobox.ColumnCount = 2
>Combobox.ColumnWidth = "0,150"
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>I still have the problem that when the combobox is closed it shows the first array column, but I want it to show the second array column, like the dropdown does.
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>Any ideas? Thanks.
>
>Alex