Hi Pete,

The Row source is Worksheet!b6:b9 and control Source b5 - a cell containing "Please Select". When the Form opens I wanted that showing in the text area, with the dropdown to list the four list options.
The change event displays a label and textbox for the next stage (not done yet).

This works the first time only. Once an item is selected that replaces b5 and becomes what's shown in the text box next time - also fireing the change event early.

Attempting to reset cbo.value to "" or "Please Select" caused "Could not set the Value property. Invalid property value." Changing b5 back to "Please Select" in code didn't work.. in either Form Close or Sub Demo, which calls the Form. But typing it back in manually to b5 did.

I can ditch the combo box and perhaps try radio buttons, but I'm curious why it 's so problematic and it'd be good to know what I'm doing wrong for future use. There's a wee xls which demo's it if you'd like to look further.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49222457/cboDemo.xls
Thanks, ABB