>>Hi Timothy,
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>>In the listbox sometimes instead of GotFocus when event got fired. I don't remember specifics, but I do remember my former colleague Mike Asherman mentioned some idiosyncrasies (very hard word!) in the listbox behavior. I do remember from his comments to use When event and click event - that's all I know
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>I figured maybe that's what u meant. But u were initially correct about selecteditemforecolor. My problem was dueling events in different controls, my bad. But thanks!

Ok, great you got it working.