Hi Gunther.

>> I want to display the text Select a system. <<

I assume that 'Select a system' is not a part of the result set from your SQL SELECT used as the combo's RowSource.

The easiest way to do this is to change the RowSourceType of your combo to 0 -none. You can then add this text to the combo's RowSource using its AddItem method and populate the remaining rows from the SQL SELECT the same way by using the combo's AddItem method inside of a scan loop that scans the cursor produced by the SQL select.

Marcia