Nancy,
Look at threads 135172 and 161132 (hope I copied them correctly) for discussions on this problem. Mainly, you put the code to switch off the combo in the combo's valid.

What I do is shorten the combo until only the arrow shows, and put the textbox where the 'body' of the combo box normally is. Then when the combobox has focus I expand it to a width that covers the text box. When it loses focus it 'contracts' and the text box shows.

HTH
Barbara

>...I've seen posts about comboboxes that will, when a selection is made in the list, send the focus to a control that was "under" the dropped down list. Now, I can't find the thread(s) and I'm not having any luck searching the KB, either.
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>Can someone point me in the direction, please?
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>TIA