I do this all the time with an array as the list source. As a matter of fact, it seems to pretty much work universally. I don't know what it would do with a query or cursor as the list source however.



>this does only work, if you're populating the list manually with the AddItem methods.
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>Armin
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>>The help text says for Combo Box says:
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>>"An item in a ComboBox control can be disabled by placing a backslash (\) before the item. If the item begins with a backslash and should not be disabled, add an additional backslash."
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>>I put a backslash before the items I wanted to be disabled and all I got were items with backslashes displayed as the first character. None of the items were disabled.
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>>How do I disable items in a combo box?
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>>Thanks in advance.