Chuck, make sure that you have

Thisform.List1.ListIndex = 1

before you set focus to the listbox in the last line of Form.Init()

If ListIndex is not set, then the listbox gets focus, but visually you don't see it, as none of items is selected yet.

>I tried that before and didn't do it. Maybe it's something else that got the focus away afterwards?
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>I will look into LISAG (are they in that order?).
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>I will also attempt to use the debug for that...
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>Thanks to all!
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>Chuck
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>>To meet your stated requirements you should do your setfocus at the end of the form's Init code.