Ok, i'm sure i'm getting to be a pest, but i really feel that no one has answered a question that MUST be fairly simple... All i want is to add different colored items to a "listbox" be it any control (provided with or not provided with vb5) that LOOKS like a listbox. There has been the suggestion to use ListView, but I have yet to find a way to do this.... if anyone knows of a control that lest you do this, please tell me of it... or some other way of doing this... thanks =)