>>>When you drop down a combobox, a list appears. When you move the mouse over the items in the list they are highlighted. Is there an event that occurs as the items are highlighted?
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>>Interactivechange method almost get what you want...
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>>a little incovenient is that method only run if a change was made by the user...
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>>But if I got you correctly.. You're trying to run a method during an user's choice procedure of an item...
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>>HTH
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>He wants to run some code while highlighting the item, but not yet selecting it. InteractiveChange will fire after you selected the item.

Naomi is right. As you mouseover the items the highlight moves, but unfortunately no event fires. I wanted to pop up an image that is related to the highlighted value as the highlight moves. AFAIK it cannot be done. Maybe with some yet unidentified activex control it could work.