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>Will do. I'll get it together in a few minutes and fire it off to your email address.
>
>Thanks!
>
>>I am not sure what the problem is. That is how I have my code and everything works.
>> Would you be willing to zip up the form and table to send me and I can look to see what we are both missing?
>>>Absolutely nothing - just what you told me. With the textbox name changed from "text8" to "vSearchvalue".
>>>
>>>>What else do you have in the refresh method?
>>>>>I put that in there - no good. The search box is still read-only.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Should be just:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>IF !THISFORM.buttonset1.editmode
>>>>>> THISFORM.text8.ENABLED = .T.
>>>>>>ELSE
>>>>>> THISFORM.text8.ENABLED = .F.
>>>>>>ENDIF
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Sorry, took so long getting back to you, I took a 4-day weekend.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>No problem at all. I hope you enjoyed your weekend! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>did you go into the refresh method of the textbox or the form and put in the code for setting the enabled equal to .T. for that textbox?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've tried that, and it had no effect. Maybe I'm entering that piece of code incorrectly? What, exactly, would the syntax be for the Refresh method code?