"mcnews" wrote in message
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so the file names have to go into a table before i can sort them.

Not necessarily, but it may be the easiest.

no way to let the dir() command do it. ok, i get it.

You could potentially fill an array in memory from the results of calling
the Dir() function and the FileDateTime() function in a loop, and then sort
that array, and then use a list-filling function to fill the list box from
your array. But it would involve some moderately complex coding.

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