combo box catch 22 -

Hi,

I'm setting up a combo box on my form but I'm running into the following catch 22 situation:

I don't want the user to be able to type anything in the box so I set it to the "Dropdown List" style which seems to prevent the user from typing in text. However, with this style, it won't let me set anything for .Text. The idea is that I want the combo box to initially say "Select view..." so the user know what the heck the combo box is for...But, I can't seem to figure out how to get text to show in the combo box when the form is loaded.. The only way to do this seems to be when you set the style back to "Dropdown Combo", but again, the user is allowed to enter text, which I want to prevent..

Any help would be appreciated..

Dan

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