Anyway thanks for confirming that this wasn't just an oversight on my part. I was beginning to doubt my sanity.

What I"m trying to do is have a view name that can be used as the rowsource property of the drop-down list so I don't have to spell out the...

oops. just for the fun of it I decided to try the view without the "Top 100 percent" clause and got:

Msg 1033, Level 15, State 1, Procedure vMessageItem, Line 6

The...

Thanks for the info, looks like I have job security for a while yet.