Marcia:

I just turned off Nick's GridHighligher class and bingo, normal colour behaviour in the dropdown list. So, that appears to be part of the problem although I have used this for ages with no problems. Its just the first time I have put a list in a grid for ages <s>.

Are you familiar with this class?

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>Hi Gary.
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>When the list gets focus and I select an item from the dropdown list, when the dropdown list closes (after selection), the closed list box is deep blue and the selected item cannot be seen in the closed dropdown list (until you leave the list).
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>By any chance, is the RowSourceType for your combo either 2-Alias or 6-Fields? And is it bound to an integer surrogate key in the grid's RecordSource?
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>Try changing the RowSourceType to something other than 2-Alias or 6-Fields.