Kevin,

Any item in a listbox that begins with a backslash is disabled. I suppose a quick workaround would be to cycle through the array and add a space to the beginning of each item, and alltrim() it back off when you SET PRINTER TO NAME.

HTH.

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>Sorry to be following up on this so late but I only had the chance to test today.
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>What you say above is correct Ed (thanks again), but I need to be able to give my users the ability to choose which printer to print to from a selection list.
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>At the moment I'm using a combobox populated with the "first column" as above, but I find that the XP Network printers (eg. "\\weathersvr\laserplain") show up as unselectable shaded (non-)options in my combobox list. Other printers can be selected as normal though.
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>Any ideas why this is -or more importantly how to solve it?
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> -Kevin.