Kevin,

I tried to do this for a LONG time, to come up with some work around and never succeeded. I was doing all kinds of odd things. I was informed by MS that it isn't possible. Good luck and it you do find a way PLEASE pass on the info.


>I have a combobox on an entry form that is sometimes disabled....easy enough...
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>Only problem is that I'd like to be able to set the background color when it's disabled...no matter what I try, the background color stays an ugly shade of grey.
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>With text boxes, it's the same way, except that I use the READONLY property instead of ENABLED, so that I can keep the background color that I want...except that comboboxes don't have a READONLY property.
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin