>I am looking for the right control to use for this situation, but I am having kind of a brain dead kind of day.
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>For a record (a person) there is a general notes field. Some people have notes and some people don't. I am creating a simple data entry/view form. I am looking for something like a dropdown textbox kind of thing, where the user can manually expand it if they need to view the text. They also need to be able edit the text.
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>Any ideas? I usually stick with with around 10 controls I am familiar with, but I am feeling a little saucy today.

It sounds like you need the standard TextBox control but set the Multiline property to true (you might also want to enable scrollbars). You could also use the RichTextBox control for more flexibility (but more overhead<s>). By anchoring the control to it's container (i.e. form) the control can resize as the container is resized.

Hope this helps (and that I understood what you want).

Einar