Hi Mark.

>> I need to show every item in my listbox as selected upon entry to the form. <<

The only way that I found to make this sort of thing work was to put the code in the ListBox's Refresh(). Add a custom property to the form called lFirstTime and set it to true in the property sheet. The, in the form's Activate, you put code like this:

IF This.lFirstTime
   This.lstWhatever.Refresh()
ELSE
   This.lFirstTime. .F.
ENDIF
<pre>

Code like this in the lstWhatever's refresh():
<pre>
IF ThisForm.lFirstTime
  FOR lnItem = 1 TO This.ListCount
    This.Selected[ lnItem ] = .T.
  ENDFOR
ENDIF

Marcia