>>I specifically want to look through the ValueMember property, selected or not, to find the values index. Then I want to to change the selected index to that index to display. The situation is that I want to open a form by passing a userid that will be used to load/scan to appropriate entry in a combo on the form.<

Ooops, ok, my bad ... the code I showed you searched for the Display member, not the Value Member, but you can modify it to take care of that. Then, simply set the item to be selected, like this:

    MyCombo.Items[i].Selected = true;

~~Bonnie