>>>>>>>>Timothy, may i guess what you can do?
>>>>>>>>Throw away all Listbox.Refresh() and Listbox.Requery() and issue:
>>>>>>>>Thisform.List1.Value=Table1.Field1
>>>>>>>>assuming that Table1.Field1 is list.rowsource
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>>>>>>>Ed, what exactly does this do? Can you seek a certain record with this method and have the listbox's record pointer go there?
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>>>>>>Any time you work with List or combo, you should go to Rowsource first, i.e. if you moved pointer there (e.g. as result of SEEK) then the only thing you need to show this record value is to say 'Listbox.Value=Table.Field'
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>>>>>What I was hoping to do was seek the record of choice, then skip 5 records and display it from there. Does this seem viable with the above described method?
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>>>>Do you mean that you want to show current listbox item as 5 records from the SEEK point? It's not a problem, but why do you want this?
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>>>Yes, it's what I want so that the seek'ed' record is about in the middle of the listbox rather than at the bottom.
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>>That's pretty normal to allow the list to show active item at the bottom. You can make a trick to bring active item to the middle by MOUSE CLICK at scroll button, but it's really artificial.
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>So to seek the record of choice, then skip 5 records and display it from there is not really possible by saying 'Skip 5' ?

No, it's possible but you will really select (highlight) the fifth record from the SEEK point. If it's the purpose, that's OK.