>Well, I re-did this page to have combo in design time, but the problem persists!!!!!!!!
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>Also, if I press Cancel button, it does show info correctly, but otherwise the first item comes as blank. Selecting something still leaves it blank.
That is weird.
As I said this usually happens when you have RowSourceType = 6. But yours is 3.
O!
Set the Value of the combo to appropriate empty value for the type (in properties sheet).
If your ControlSource is numeric set it to 0.
If char - ="", Date {} etc :-)
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