>>...none of these combo show values at startup though there is a some value in Value property. It displays these values only if you set focus to it.
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>Jayesh,
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>I had a user complain of this exact problem several years ago. Turns out he had his windows colors set so that that inactive combo boxes had the same background and foreground. The info was there, just couldn't see it.
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>jt
Now THAT's a different problem from most.