Actually I've got it. The solution was to draw the value directly from the table rather than column 2 of the listbox. Thanks to both of you.

>So you've got it sussed? Using Cetin's soln.? What?
>
>>Terry -
>>Actually I'm not displaying the contents of the memo field at all. It is used to contain the path to a file which is presented in the first field
>>of the table and the first column of the list box. The width of the first column is set to the width of the listbox so the second column is not visible to the user.
>>The user chooses the file and the program put the filename together with the path to find and load the file. The procedure works fine if I use a character field in place of the memo field but since some of the paths are long I was trying to conserve by using a MEMO.
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>>>>I have a listbox containing 2 columns representing 2 fields from a table. The field belonging to the value property of the listbox is a MEMO field. When I try to retrieve the value of the listbox I get the word 'MEMO' rather than the actual content of the memo field. What am I missing?
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>>>>Thanks for any input.
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>>>Don
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>>>It's usual to display the contents of a memo field in an editbox. By default you get a wee memo labelled text box type thing. X2-clicking on this brings up a memo window.
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>>>Why not display the 2 columns in a grid? then you can have the memo column as an editbox.
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>>>HTH
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>>>Terry