thankyou for your reply lotus18

Hi All..i am just learning vb6, i have made a simple project to calculate the total sum from entering input as numbers in several input fields and a calculate button to show the sum. Now i want to use combo boxes to do the same thing,
eg: combobox1 would have ( red,blue,green ) and then assign a value to the words ( red=5,blue=3 green=1) and the same with combobox2, combobox3 etc. so that if i select (red from box 1, blue from box 2, green...