>I am setting focus to my list box but unless you actually click on the list box, it will not allow incremental searching.
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>Is there a way that when you set focus, the user can immediately be able to click on a letter of the alphabet and have the incremental search begin or do they always have to use the mouse and click on the list box first?

That's normal windows behavior, I can tell you that much, it's the same in other apps too. The apps usually get around it by:

1) Using a combo
2) Using a textbox to input search chars

I guess you could use MOUSE CLICK to automate it in vfp, maybe...