Hi Bryan

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>Hello fellow FoxPro programmers. I hope y'all can help me with this
>problem.
>
>I have a grid with a combobox in one of the columns.
>
>My problem seems to be in getting the unselected rows to behave
>properly.
>
>Here are the setting in the properties of my grid
>
>myGrid
>Recordsource gridtable
>
>myGrid.Column1
>
>ControlSource gridtable.itemno
>CurrentControl myComboBox
>Sparse .T.
>
>myGrid.Column1.myCombobox
>
>Boundcolumn 2
>RowSourceType Alias
>Rowsource invtsub.descrip,itemno
>
>The behavior I wish to have is:
>
>Unselected rows, show the item description from the table invtsub.dbf.
>
>Selected rows, show the item selected in the combobox. This one works
>fine but the unselected rows don't behave as I want. All I can seem
>to manage is to display the item number instead of the item
>description. How do I get it to display the Description and NOT the
>item number in those (unselected) rows. I tried setting the
>controlsource for the textbox control in the column as the
>description field but to no avail.
>
>Any help here would be appreciated. Please send response by email.
>
>Thanks