Chad,

Thanks for the reply. This is what I thought. I don't want to overcomplicate it. I guess, I would live with the readonly combo then...

>Nadya,
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>I guess a brute force way would be to put a borderless shape on top of the combobox that covered the arrow part and was colored to match the DisabledBackColor of the combobox. Or you could just have the control cover itself with a textbox as necessary.
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>HTH,
>Chad
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>Do you know, if I can make combobox look like a textbox if it's for read-only purpose?
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>>Thanks.