Combo boxes

Please consider providing instructions in the Access Help facility on how to
avoid entries in a Combo box from being sorted. The "not sorted" facility in
the query section doesn't seem to work. All the Combo box entries appear in
alphabetic order by default. I want the items in the Combo box to appear in
the order I entered them ie Detached house, Semi-detached house, Bungalow,
Flat etc but, despite the kind suggestions of two people in the News Groups I
can't manage to achieve this (and yet it seems as though it should be simple).
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