Matt,

What you want to do is logical enough, but it can't be done (at least no one seems to have found a way to do so so far!).

You have no choice but to do as suggested in one form or another.

I find the docs to be very weak on this area (and many others). I keep hoping for improvements when VFP 6 is delivered.

Cheers,
Jim N

>>>I have never really gotten a dropdown combo to work correctly when the user enters something other than selecting what's in the list. I have a dropdown comboa with .controlsource=Job_Info.Quoted_By and it is populated by a comma delimited list of employee names, but I want to be able to enter something not in the list. When you enter you own text, it doesn't appear in the list, and I can't get it to save the info to the table.
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>>>Please help.
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>>When you enter something into text portion of combo you actually populate Combo.DisplayValue property. The next step you have to add (if you want) this entry to the list portion (rowsource) programmatically, e.g.
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>>***Combo.Lostfocus event
>>if this.displayvaluethis.value
>> Insert into table1 Values(...) && table1 is rowsource
>> This.requery
>>endif
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>Well, I don't really want to add the entered text to the .rowsource (which is an array), I just want to store it into the .controlsource of the combo box (which is a feild from a free table), and have it display the user-entered text in the textbox area, even when the combo box loses focus. It seems that since the combobox cannot find a match between the entered text and the .rowsource items, that it doesn't display it, and it doesn't udpate the field in the table.