If a combobox is linked to a cell, then changing the combobox is going to
have to change the cell, no exceptions. This might well override an enable
events = false.

The question then is, why have a linked cell and a change event? Should you
be looking at a cell change event  instead?

Failing that, looks as though you'll just need to put an "ignore" variable
in for the combobox event to look at.