Yep.
You could use a SQL-Select rowsourcetype instead. Then you won't have to have it open.

>>Why? Are you having a problem?
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>>>I have rowsource set to office9.office and rowsourcetype set to fields. Do I need to make any other reference to make this combobox work correctly?
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>yeah I was, Do you have to have the file open before the above will work?