Actually, I would be happy if they were grayed out, but I can't get the '\' to work with the rowsourcetype as a table. I just want users to be able to see the possible choices, but not change them, or think they have changed the value without being in 'editing mode'. Is it possible to use '\' to disable with a table? and if so, how?

Here is exactly what I am doing:
Jobs currently can have 3 different statuses 'ACTIVE', 'INACTIVE', 'HOLD'
If the rowsourcetype as values by hand I can put '\ACTIVE','\INACTIVE','\HOLD'
and the combo box works the way I want. (I remove the '\' when editing) HOWEVER, I want to use a table for valid statuses (in case we add some new ones). With the rowsourcetype as values from a table (tablename:jstatus, fieldname:status), the following does not work: '\jstatus.status' I just get the error 1130 -'field' phrase is not found.

Thank you for your time.
Phil