Wayne,

Look at boundTo property....

>Tell me why this is doing what it is doing?
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>The combo based on the character is fine, the one based on the number is getting the ordinal item from the array.
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>	PROCEDURE combo1.Init
>		DIMENSION thisform.cmbchoices(3,2)
>		thisform.cmbchoices(1,1) = "Display for 2"
>		thisform.cmbchoices(1,2) = 2
>		thisform.cmbchoices(2,1) = "Display for 1"
>		thisform.cmbchoices(2,2) = 1
>		thisform.cmbchoices(3,1) = "Display for 3"
>		thisform.cmbchoices(3,2) = 3
                this.boundTo = .t.
                this.value = 2  && defaults to 1st entry now....
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>		this.RowSourceType= 5
>		this.RowSource="thisform.cmbchoices"
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>		RETURN DODEFAULT()
>	ENDPROC
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