Hello Bob,

good news we have managed to illiminate 3 out of 4 of my
original problems in less than half an hour!!

3) the combobox auto selects the first result (need a
blank cell)

**answer** set the listindex to -1 so when it opens it has
a record that is blank!!!!

4) the data is not in an order, it appears as it does in
my records (need a sort function)

Now for this final question, how do we sort the data so it
appears in the list in a logical order???

thank you,

Robert Couchman