Jim,

>Addlistitem takes three arguments, the value to add, the itemid, and the column.

Yup, I had 3 args in the AddListItem() calls and 2 args in the AddItem(). I think Steve Sawyer's PTF-Form Designer book used the combination of the two methods. In loop form it might look clearer.

with thisform.list2
   for liRow = 1 to 5
      lcText = "Row" + padr( liRow, 2 ) + "Col 1"
      .AddItem( lcText, liRow )
      for liCol = 2 to 3
         lcText = "Row" + padr( liRow, 2 ) + "Col" + padr( liCol, 2 )
         .AddListItem( lcText, liRow, liCol )
      endfor
   endfor
endwith

I guess this is just another case where there's a dozen different ways to do anything in VFP.