Thanx, I see your point but I have a problem. After playing with this while I found that TOPINDEX is always read only (so I can't use it) but TopIItemID is writable at runtime. My problem is that for some reason when I put This.TopIItemID = 1 in the CLICK event of my dropdown I get, PROPERTY TOPITEMID NOT FOUND. Any idea's???


>There is a problem with setting the ListIndex property: it changes the value of the control. A better way is to set the TopIndex property to 1: this property sets which item in the combo box will be the top item when the combo box is opened.
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>Rick
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>>Thanx, it works!
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>>>Hi Ian,
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>>>>I looked at that option but it (along with LIST) is set to NONE on all my drop downs, and is not editable... any ideas???
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>>>Yeah, its read-only at desing time. Put this code in the DropDown Event of you Combo:
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>>>This.ListItem = 1
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>>>You may need some creative way to reset the ListItem if the a new Item isn't chosen.