combo box - return the text of the selected item

I want to return the text of a selected item in a combo.  How?
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Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)Commented:
what is the rowsource of the combo?

if you have two columns for your combo,

set the properties
column Count 2
bound column 1
column widths  0; 1
vbnetcoderAuthor Commented:
I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

figured it out
Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)Commented:
if you have two columns for your combo,

select id, names from tablex   ' as the rowsource

and you want to show the names instead of the id

set the properties
column Count 2
bound column 1
column widths  0; 1

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