I have an excel 2k workbook that is basically a front end to a access db (2k as well). In the workbook the user will select a value from a combo box, which will in turn populate certain cells in the workbook. Let's say the cells being populated are A1:A10. There are also two buttons, one to update the db with the values in A1:A10, another to restore the values from the db (simply in case the user made changes in the cells but decides he wants to go back to the db values). Here's what I want to do, maybe I'm getting to fancy. The user selects a value from the combo box, the cells A1:A10 are populated with values, with black text, aligned right. If the user changes that value, the text becomes red, aligned left. Am I dreaming?