Not as far as I'm aware.

Try putting the States in a different table from the Cities, this will
enable accurate reports in the future and you wouldn't need to bold only
certain items.

BComrie
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As Doug says, the standard Access combobox won't do this. In theory you
could use an ActiveX "owner draw" combobox control. Owner draw means you
have full control over how each item in the list is formatted. But it
would be quite a lot of work, and would complicate the process of
packaging and distributing your application.

For a simple alternative, how about using a couple of spaces to indent
the cities but not the states? For instance, if your table has a
Location field containing the state name or city abbreviation, and an
IsState yes/no field distinguishing cities from states, you'd use
something like

 SELECT
   Location,
   IIF([IsState],[Location],"  "&[Location]") AS ListItem
 FROM tblLocations
 ORDER BY Location
 ;

in a two-column combobox with the ColumnWidth property set to "0" and
the BoundColumn to 1.

--
John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]

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