>>>I would put no code in Valid, and look at using Click.
>>>In Click:
>>>
>>>This.Lostfocus
>>>
>>>to fire whatever code you have in your Lostfocus. Will that work?
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>>Won't the Click fire every time the user clicks on the box, even if it's not dropped down?
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>What kind of box is it? There are two ideas in play here:
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>1) The Click does not fire when user clicks on the "dropdown arrow" - so a normal selection can be made without any problems.
>2) Any other behavior (incremental search, e.g.) can be controlled in the Lostfocus by stopping exit with a NoDefault. I don't know the details of what you're doing, but the hope is that a combination of these two ideas will help...
I meant the textbox part of the Combobox. If the user clicks there, won't the Click Event fire?
I'm going to try some of these suggestions and see what happens.
Elyse Pomerantz