>>Either, or. Tell us about the rowsource and rowsourcetype. This matters.
>
>the rowsource is set to 2 fields in the dbf and the rowsourcetype is set to fields. I seek a record that IS there then "DO FORM DLIST". Just before the form activated, I issue a 'BROW' just to make sure it found the record. then in the activate section of the listbox :
>seek mcateg
>thisform.mylistbox1.requery
>thisform.mylistbox1.refresh
>thisform.refresh
>but it appears set to the fisrt record in the file!

Seek _after_ the requery.