>>>That won't make the textbox store an integer lookup value while displaying the character.
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>>Who needs the integer in such a case. An integer is 4 bytes wide while a char is 1. If you still need an integer then try an optiongroup.
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>True. The lookup is more OOPish, letting me change which character is displayed without altering the data. Am I overthinking this?
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>Chris.

I think yes :) If I really badly needed to mimic fox2x behaviour I might directly use a browse or have a container in that column with a textbox (no controlsource, format M, as changed change actual field).
Cetin