You mean you have a SQL as the source for a combo box in a form?
What do you mean by the "status box", and what is the "selected text"?

Use the After Update event of your Combo Box.

    If Not IsNull(ComboBoxName) Then Status ComboBoxName

If the value you want to display is not in the first column you will need to access the Column property.
For example:

    If Not IsNull(ComboBoxName) Then Status ComboBoxName.Column(1)

I used If Not IsNull because if the value is removed from the Combo Box you would get an Invalid Use Of Null error. This prevents that from happening.

Thomas,

Robert is talking about the Status Box.

Kevin your the best that worked perfectly. Just to let you know what I am doing is using the combobox connected to the statusbox, then using text to speak to read the text. Works perfectly, thanks

You're welcome :)