Hi John.

the problem i am having is that if the user doesn't want to choose anything from the combobox and clicks the little arrow to 'roll up' the combobox, the info from the first record is transferred to the editbox anyway. is there a way to differentiate between a 'choice click' in the combo and an 'arrow' click so i don't get this problem?

Your problem is that the code is in the wrong place. Call it from the combo's InteractiveChange() method instead of from its Click()