Still works for me.
1) Are you ensuring that you don't have any leading spaces?
2) Have you tried issuing a combobox.Requery after adding the backslashes?

HTH
Larry Long

>I swear the backslasch \ when preceding the display value in a combobox used to disable that particular selection. It does not anymore ()
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>Or am I crazy??
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>I have legacy data with bad codes which need to bVFP8e in the lookup table but shall not be used again.
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>Where am I going astray???
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>Peter