How to grey out a list box

[Paul1]

That's great. Thanks very much to both of you for your help. Problem Solved.

[Micron]

It fixes both of them if you remove both. At first I was trying to modify the top one seeing as how the reported problem concerned the lower box. I found the format on 2 tables.

[isladogs]

I stopped looking after finding the first one! I'd spent long enough trying to find the issue before that....

[Paul1]

I just wanted to add that Access automatically inserted the @ format in the table when I created the table but I'm glad you found the problem. Thanks again.

[isladogs]

For future info the @ can be used to add colour formatting to listboxes and combos overwriting other formatting you have applied.
See this post for details on how to use it as a 'feature'
https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...d.php?t=297923

In your case, because no colour was specified, it applied the default... Black