Yeah, I should have noticed that last one, If you're any good with the API it's probably worth starting from scratch, if you have 3 comboboxes then that will take up 4 times the memory of a single combo box, (once for each combo and once for the usreconrol itself.) Plus if you start from scratch you can make the combo box lok exagtly how you want it to. If that seems too much like hard work then dont bother.