I think if you start to work more with arrays instead of cursors, you will start to appreciate the usefulness and flexibility of arrays more and more. VFP 7 will make these types of cursors more flexible because you can add a READWRITE clause at the end of the select statement instead of going through the workaround of USEing the cursor again to make it updatable.

>SCRATCH LAST QUEST. I got it to work, thanks!
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>>>That occured to me but after I had already completed the legwork for what I've accomplished so far. for an array, do I set the rowsource the same way?
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>>In the Init of the Listbox, you can do the following:
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>>This.AddProperty('aSource[1]')
>>This.RowSourceType = 5
>>This.RowSource = 'This.aSource'
>>select LMCA_NBR,&AFIELD,PR_NBR,noun from MOFFICE where &AFIELD= TRIM(MCALL) .AND. STATUS = 'OPEN' into array This.aSource
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>>Now you can use functions like ADEL(), ASORT(), ASCAN() on this array as well as DIMENSION to make the array larger if you need to add elements.
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>>Also, make sure you set your ColumnCount and ColumnWidths properties