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oh, wait, i see, you're trying to do that with the same box that holds the name. i usually put a "find" combobox at the top of the form, then when it finds the desired record, the name populates automatically, of course, and the combobox goes blank again. i would rather users only use comboboxes on main fields in the report for data entry, and not ever expect it to take them to another record. if they sometimes do, they might think the record has changed, and start overwriting data, without realizing their mistake. pretty sure that has happened with one of my users...