If you need more control over dropdown list maybe you should build your own combobox similar to LookUp DropDown ComboBox File #17273.

>Hi,
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>In VFP 7 I have a form with several drop-down combos and a label to show an explanation of each code.
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>I can update the label in the interactivechange if the user selects an item
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>thisfrom.label1.caption = cursor_name.fieldname
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>However what i want to do is show the user this explanation when they mouse over each item in the drop down list.
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>I have looked at showing the description and seting the boundcolumn to the code, but as some of the descriptions can be lengthy I was hoping for a neater solution.
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>Thanks in advance
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>William