Hi John

Thanks! Your workaround will do the trick.

Regards
Bill

>Hiya Bill ---
>
>I found a workaround. Create a custom form property called SelectThem. Default it to .T. In the Refresh of the Form:
>

>IF THIS.SelectThem
>   THIS.List1.Selected(2)=.T.
>   THIS.List2.Selected(3)=.T.
>   THIS.SelectThem=.F.
>ENDIF
>

>This will do a one-shot on initializing the listbox.
>
>>Can someone enlighten me on this simple problem:
>>
>>I have a list box. In the ListBox.Init I put the following code.
>>
>>this.Selected(2) = .T.
>>this.Selected(3) = .T.
>>this.Refresh
>>
>>When the form is run, list items 2 & 3 are not shown as selected. If I run the same code from a command button on the form, it works as expected - the list items are selected. I have tried putting the code in the form.Init and form.Activate as well, with no success. My goal is to have a multi-select listbox which can be initialized to show the currently chosen items as 'selected'.
>>
>>Thanks for any help.
>>Bill Sabo