Hi,

I haven't been able to find anything on this in the forum.

My situation is that I have a combo box control on a sheet. The combo
list is populated by querying an access db when the combo is activated,
the combo has 3 columns, column 1 is bound (which is linked to a cell
in the wkb), column 2 is user info only, column 3 is set as TextColumn.

It's all working great until I close the workbook and reopen it (after
having saved). When the sheet first pops up the combo displays the
column 3 text value as it did before it was closed, but as the workbook
finished loading all of a sudden the combo loses its text value and
displays the bound value.

I have tried opening the book with macros disabled to see if it is my
code which is causeing the problem, but the result is the same. I also
have another combo on the sheet which only shows one column, the bound
column, and it does not have the same problem, it works just as I would
expect.

If anyone has an idea of what I can do to fix this I would be most
appreciative.

Regards
Henry

My guess would be to call the macro that does the query to populate the
ComboBox at the WorkBook_Open Event.

Mike F
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Hi,

I haven't been able to find anything on this in the forum.

My situation is that I have a combo box control on a sheet. The combo
list is populated by querying an access db when the combo is activated,
the combo has 3 columns, column 1 is bound (which is linked to a cell
in the wkb), column 2 is user info only, column 3 is set as TextColumn.

It's all working great until I close the workbook and reopen it (after
having saved). When the sheet first pops up the combo displays the
column 3 text value as it did before it was closed, but as the workbook
finished loading all of a sudden the combo loses its text value and
displays the bound value.

I have tried opening the book with macros disabled to see if it is my
code which is causeing the problem, but the result is the same. I also
have another combo on the sheet which only shows one column, the bound
column, and it does not have the same problem, it works just as I would
expect.

If anyone has an idea of what I can do to fix this I would be most
appreciative.

Regards
Henry

Yeah, that would be an option, I can certainly work around it, but I am
confused by the behaviour so I was hoping to see if anyone had an
explanation for it so I could avoid just adding more code.

Thanks for the response.
Henry