>>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?
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>>Thanks
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>>Todd

Sorry about that, hit the send button by mistake.

It works ok for me. Are you setting the Value property of the listbox to one of the items in the list so it will be highlighted on startup? But the incremental search worked for me whether the Value property was set or not. Also what type of RowSourceType are you using?

Bill