>>>I played with KEYBOARD {ALT-DNARROW} in the Keypressed event but it didn't work.
>>>Any ideas?
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>>Put this in the gotfocus event instead.
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>Evan,
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>Thanks for the quick reply!
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>I tried that and it works, but now the user cannot enter a value not in the list unless they get rid of the drop down (clicking down arrow or pressing Alt-Dnarrow).
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>Is there a better way?
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>TIA,
>Dan

You can have your combo as a drop-down list and add a small button to the right of it. I implemented it recently this way in one of my application, because I needed to add lots of information to the underlying table, so I have to invoke a special form anyway.