turn combo box highlight off?

MikeV06 wrote:
I have a main form with a subform. The main form has a combo box. The
drop down list is used to select an item which populates the subform.
All works as it should.

However, the selected entry in the combo box is highlighted (as it
should be since it was selected and in focus). What I would like to
do is turn off the highlight but leave the control in focus so that
the drop down list can again be used for selecting an item.

It that possible and if so, how?

Manipulating the SelStart and/or SelLength properties of the ComboBox should
work for this, but for some reason when I test this they have no effect when
used in the AfterUpdate event of the ComboBox.

I was testing in Access 97 so if you have a different version you could
still try that as it might work in newer versions.

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