Hi Rob,

A combobox set to required will always select the first option as default. If you do not want that to happen, you can use a - Please select - as the first opton with a value of -1.

If you're using SQL, you can use something like this:

Select '- Select Item - ' as QuestionOption, ' ' as QuestionOptionValue
Union All
select Text as QuestionOption, Text as QuestionOptionValue from Lists where ListName= 'Region'

Hope that helps!
Candace