>my understanding of list boxes is that with the builder I should be able to append databases or tables. I can't seem to get this to work. Any suggestions?

List boxes work the same way as combos. What are you trying to do and what is happending? That will help :-)

You want to set your ControlSource to the field in a table or view you want to modify, then set BoundTo to .T. Then if you select a value of the list that value will be put in the control source.