>I have a combo on a form that I may or may not want to select an item from. However, if the combo ever gets the focus it selects the first item by default, which I don't want.
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>Ideally I want it to look and behave like a dropdown list, but with the option to not select anything. I tried setting it to a combo but it still selected an item by default.
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>Please don't tell me I have to manually add a "Not applicable" item.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Pablo

Pablo,

Your problem is the reverse of what most people have with this... What is the ListIndex property set to? Try 0 (zero).

Renoir