>1) When using a combo box, I was under the impression that as you typed the first letter or two into the box, it should bring up the items from the list which matched those letters, I have turned incremental search on, is there another option concerning this?

Set _DBLCLICK TO 1.5 (for example) in the gotfocus of your combo and reset it in the lost focus.


>2) Is it possible to disable a column in a grid so that I can display the contents but not allow it to be edited?
Does the enabled flag help? If it's a combo box you could return .F. from the When.