>>>This may sound a little strange, but...
>>>I'm trying to build a combo that appears as 4 textboxes, but has functionality of combo with arrow on right end of last text box. It all looks/works fine with containers and shapes on top of the combo, except that when I click to select from the combo, it rises to the top, normal behavior. Does anyone have an idea to keep the combo underneath the other objects?
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>>Bruce, are these 4 textboxes all imitation of normal combo text portion?
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>No, that idea was going to be plan B. Now, I just have containers/shapes over the part of the combo between text, which is separated by spaces. That is, one long string in combo like 'text1 text2 text3 text4'. Looks great, but doesn't function well...

IMO, oo-way is to have 3 textboxes and one combo. Combo.Interactivechange event will reset each textbox.Value and Combo.Displayvalue