>Bruce,
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>Shrink the width of the cbo will it's just the button, or use a seperate commandbutton instead of the cbo.

Thanks, I changed (per Edward's suggestion) to using 3 textboxes plus a short combo for the 4th field, which expands when dropped down to a long string padded so that the dropdown fields are aligned with the textboxes, if you can imagine what I'm talking about :) Works fine...