>In the Properties box for the Textbox "searchbox", ControlSource is "searchpart".
>
If you set ( for debug only)

searchbox.controlsource=none

can you edit the textbox ?

>>>Hi Jim,
>>>
>>>Thanks, but no-go. My textbox ("searchbox") is set to ReadOnly=.f. and I added the DODEFAULT() before the code Tracy suggested earlier. I'm still not able to access the textbox at all, and the Status Bar still says "This control is read-only."
>>>
>>
>>searchbox.controlsource is ?