>>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.
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>That is weird.
>As I said this usually happens when you have RowSourceType = 6. But yours is 3.
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>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 :-)

In my case it's numeric (integer).

UPDATE. Setting value to 0 didn't cure it.