i cannot make a multiselect property work in a listbox.it works fine with none but when i choose simple or embedded,it doesnt work at all. i have already tried all the examples on help and from the northwind sample and still it doesnt work.i just want to be able to return specific rows and columns from a table

Need more info. What are you trying to do? Do you want to select multiple items in a list box and then find out what the user selected?

dim varItm as Variant
:
For Each varItm In Me.MyList.ItemsSelected
msgbox Me.MyList.ItemData(varItm)
next varItm
:

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