Thanks for your reply Jim, the problem was in the interactivechange event. There was a select to another table that was causing the combo to clear the displayvalue property.

Enmanuel

>Because you are blanking out the critical combo properties.
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>I would accomplish this by having both a combo and a textbox in the fomr. The textbox is initially Visible = .F. the button click would be something like...
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>WITH Thisform
>   .Lockscreen = .T.
>   .Textbox.Value = Thisform.combo.displayvalue
>   .Combo.Visible = .F.
>   .Textbox.Visible = .T.
>   .Lockscreen = .F.
>ENDWITH
>

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>Now the user can edit in the textbox. When tyhey are done just reverse the sequence.