>>>Has anyone found a workaround for a combobox not being able to display a value that does not exist in it's rowsource? I would like to have it display the value in the controlsource, but I don't want to fill the rowsource until the combobox actually gets the focus. I have a form that has a lot of comboboxes and it would require a lot of individual cursors to be populated before the form comes up. I would rather use one parameterized view for the rowsource of these comboboxes and have the pick lists available only when the combobox gets focus.
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>>It's MS that found the workaround and gave us Combo.DisplayValue property to display value which is not in RowSource.
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>My combobox is bound to a 'view1.code' field - I want to display the 'view2.desc' field before the rowsource gets filled. If DisplayValue will do this, where do I set combo.DisplayValue? The rowsource is set to view2.code, desc, rowsourcetype = fields. I have tried everything I can think of and still cannot get the combo to display the value.

There are couple helpful tips about combos, and the main one is following: if you got a problem with bound combo, then make it unbound. Next thing for your case is following: DisplayValue will show by default first column of the RowSource, Value will reflect column #=Combo.BoundColumn. Also I see some problem with your approach: if you want to show something from View2, then you should fill View2 first, and this is logically and physically the same as filling the RowSource.