Hi.
You can fill the combobox manually.

select yourcursor
scan for <your condition>
   oCombo.AddItem(<your item>)
endscan

Thus you don't have to SET RELATION

Good luck.

>I know this is very basic, but it escapes me.
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>Cursor one has a field with a FK that points to cursor 2.
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>A combobox has as controlsource the FK in cursor 1. Cursor 3 (derived from cursor 2) provides the rowsource of a combobox. I want the combobox to show a description, not an ID, and the dropdown to do same. Can this be done without RELATING cursor 1 to either cursor 2 or 3?
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>TIA,
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>Alex