>Mike,
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>You could also, to my opinion even more elegant, use the Nulldisplay property. Is you set that to chr(60)+None+chr(62) or maybe chr(60)+Select your thing+chr(62) this Nulldisplay value will show in your combobox and your displayvalue will remain empty
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>Regards,
>
>Koen

Thanks. I've never tried Nulldisplay before.