There are a number of places/ways. You seem familiar with global stuff so
you can declare a global variable  and set that to the value in the
combo/text/list box. You can get the value of that control if you haven't
unloaded the userform  by referencing it explicitly...
userformname.controlname.value. You can save the value in a .TAG property of
that or any other control and then reference that explicitly.

Just some options.