Marcia,

Thanks. I was a little worried there that perhaps I'd been seeing data where there was none, and I was just about to hit the yellow pages under 'Psychiatrists'. ;)

Alan

>Hi Alan.
>
>I'm a bit confused. I just double checked and I have combo boxes in grids using fields and aliases. Why would they go blank?
>
>They do if the column is bound to an integer foreign key. But this only happens when the Sparse property of the column is set to .F. Not applicable in this case < s >.