>I have to import a lot of legacy data into a new app
>
>there are lookup values in the data which are not to used any more in the future.
>Those values need to be in the lookup table but in the combobox should be disabled (greyed). I preceeded all of those with a backslash expecting the items to be disabled. but when the controlsource is a table that does not work.
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Disabling items in a list only works with some of the RowSourceTypes. You can use 0, 1 or 5 for RowSourceType and have the ability to disable. It doesn't work with the others.

Tamar