How to Add Select One or Custom Hint Text to a Combo Box in Microsoft Access, Part 2

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to add "Select One" or custom hint text to a combo box and use the before update event to ensure the user makes a valid selection. This is part 2 of my combo box "select one" series.
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[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great video, Richard! Thanks for showing us "what is possible!"

[@michael23864]

This is brilliant video thanks very helpful I used a sort order field in the table to achieve the same thing but very good learning a bit of SQL is also very helpful as always I really enjoy your videos

[@alializadeh8195]

Thanks