No, it should not matter which control's property the array is.

>Hi Nick,
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>I did the Requery then the Refresh and now it works... seems like i tried that this morning and it didn't work... does it make any difference if the array is a property of the list box?? this time I tried it is a property of the form...
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>Thanks
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>>>I have a listbox that uses an array as the rowsource when i add an item to the array what do I need to do to update the display in the list box?
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>>>I have tried requery, refresh... I must be missing something...
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>>>Thanks
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>>John, you need .REQUERY() and .REFRESH()
>>If you want to show the newly added item, set .DisplayValue = "myNewItemtext"