Listbox.value is null

On a userform I have two lisboxes that are populated from named ranges. The listboxes are populated correctly when the form is initiated and I can scroll through the choices in both listboxes but their respective cells do not get filled and .value for both is “NULL”.


Listbox setup:

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
'list the departments
  With lstEmplDept
         .List = Range("Lists_Departments").Value
  End With
  
  'list the work environments
  With lstWrkEnv
        .List = Range("Lists_Work_Environments").Value
  End With
End Sub

Populating cells (after duplicating the last row of data

Private Sub cbn_Enter_Data_Click()
Dim lastRow As Integer
Dim emplRng As Range
Dim atndCnt As Integer
Dim varAnswer As String

'freeze panes
    Range("C2").Select
    ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True

Set emplRng = Range(Range("b2"), Range("b2").End(xlDown))
lastRow = Range(Range("b2"), Range("b2").End(xlDown)).Count + 1

    Rows(lastRow).Select
    Selection.Copy
    Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
    
    Application.CutCopyMode = False
    Selection.ClearContents
 
 'Fill Cells
    'Employee Name
    Cells(Selection.Row, 2).Value = tbxEmplNm.Value
    
    'Id
   Cells(Selection.Row, 3).Value = tbxEmplId.Value
   
'PROBLEM START--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    'Department
    Cells(Selection.Row, 4).Value = lstEmplDept.Value
    
    'Work Environment
    Cells(Selection.Row, 5).Value = lstWrkEnv.Value
 'PROBLEM END
  
 'Relocate userform
    With ActiveWindow
        Me.Left = 120 '.PointsToScreenPixelsX(ActiveCell.Left) + 250 + topicSel
        Me.top = 250 '.PointsToScreenPixelsY(ActiveCell.top) + 90 'ActiveCell.Height
    End With
End Sub

My guess is that I cannot use the value property in this way but reading through the help and on line I cannot find a simple way to extract a single value from a listbox.

Any help will be appreciated.
Robert

Your right Joseph, I wasn't actually highlighting the choice. Which means, my users probably will make the same mistake. I need to rethink this approach.
Thanks for setting me strait!
Robert

Yes Norie, I'm shifting them of to comboboxes