Hi Peter,

is this a listbox or a dropdown list/combo box? I ask because I've seen this behaviour with dropdown lists/combos when the item you want displayed is not the first item specified in the rowsource.

>A listbox with
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>RowsourceType = 6
>Rowsource = 'DamageExtent.ExtentCode,ExtentText,ExtentId'
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>does not show data until the listbox receives the focus.
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>I set Listindex to 1 in the Requery and Refresh method, all to no avail.
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>What's missing?
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>BTW, happy new year everybody - and TIA