>>>How can you make a label's caption the value of something selected, say from a listbox?
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>>*** Listbox interactivechange event
>>Thisform.Label1.Caption=This.Value
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>I had actually tried that but I had the wrong label so I mistakenly thought I had to try another way. I've not found a way to make a label blink. Can this be done. In dos it was easy.

Use timer with Interval=500 and following code in Timer event:
thisform.label1.visible=!thisform.label1.visible