At least specific 3 items seemed to me the way to go. Actually I don't like neither value nor addlistitem and tend to be data based < g >. It might be xml,text,dbf whatever but external:)
Cetin

>Hi Cetin,
>
>Not sure if I agree with you <g>, Fabio's solution might be better in this case, but, unless I am mistaken, wouldn't it be more limited? For example, there is a limit in both the number of characters you can write (I believe 261 is the max) and with the content, for example:
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.RowSource = ["Fournier, Michel", "A", "Basoz, Cetin", "B", "Lunardon, Fabio", "C"]

would not work; while
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.AddListItem("Fournier, Michel",1,1)
> .AddListItem("A",1,2)
> .AddListItem("Basoz, Cetin",2,1)
> .AddListItem("B",2,2)
> .AddListItem("Lunardon, Fabio",3,1)
> .AddListItem("C",3,2)
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would
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>>Bob,
>>Fabio's is much better, use that one.
>>Cetin