>>I have found that the old 2.6 method of disabling a specific item in a listbox ("\" + text) still disables
>>an item in a 5.0 listbox. Once disabled though, how, in code does one recognize a disabled item? The "\" is not part of the text in a listbox item and .Enabled if for the entire listbox not a specific item.
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>As far as I can see, you don't know something is disabled.
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>As you say, the "\" is not returned as part of the .list[] property so you can do things like .list[.listindex] = .list[.listindex] to remove the disabled flag which will always work.
>Similarly .list[.listindex] = "\"+.list[.listindex] will always work without adding more and more "\" characters to the value.
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>It's quite tricky the way it is...
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>Why do you want to know if something is enabled?
>Surely if it's not enabled the user can't have chosen it?

Have you tried setting a different DisabledItemForeColor property for the listbox? The default has both enabled and disabled colors the same. I tried it and it does work.