How to highlight a specific element of an array

I'm having some trouble selecting which element in an array has key focus. I want to be able to selectively highlight individual elements in an array of strings and set the key focus so that the user can immediately enter the text into that specific element.
I have been able to get "selection.start" and "selection.end" to work, but when I get a reference to "array element" it always returns a reference to the last element manually clicked. This way, I can only programatically highlight different elements by manually clicking on them, which somewhat defeats the purpose.
Does anyone know if this is possible, or if I need to move to tables or something else in order to give me this functionality?
I'm using LV 6.1
on W2k.
Thanks
Shane.
Using LV 6.1 and 8.2.1 on W2k (SP4) and WXP (SP2)

I had the problem that I would like to highlight more than one cell in a 2d array.
multicolumn listbox is very slow working with large data volumes so I had to use a 2d array instead, but then I lose the possibility to highlight.
The solution I used was to bundle a LAD and control an put this in the array, takes a bit more coding but works fine.
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2d array with marker.vi ‏23 KB

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