i have a number of combo boxes from diferrent tables on a form that I'm using ADO to populate and Then depending on the selection by the user, I write the value to the current Table. I would like to be able to cut down the search as the person starts keying in the data. For example as a person keys in "J" cutout everything that doesn't start with "J", then if he keys in "JO" cut out everything that doesn't start with "JO" and so on. Thanks