>>>>Hello Gurus!
>>>>
>>>>Problem today..........
>>>>
>>>>I have a textbox where I input text.... the text is used to filter a grid in realtime on the form....
>>>>
>>>>but... the user can TAB out of the textbox and tab to other controls, and THEN tab back into the textbox.
>>>>
>>>>The Text is now HIGHLIGHTED and SELECTED. When the user types into the textbox, the text disappears and is replaced with NEW text.
>>>>
>>>>I wanted the new text to append to the end of what text was already in the textbox.
>>>>
>>>>Is there a property to set this?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>To append text add this to the WHEN of the textbox:
>>>
>>>This.SelStart = LEN(ALLTRIM(this.Value))
>>
>>Bernard,
>>
>>Shouldn't that be

This.SelStart = LEN(TRIM(This.Value)) + 1

to account for blank spaces at the start of the text and to avoid overwriting the last letter or the text?
>>
>>Regards,
>
>
>Hi Jim
>
>Yes you are partly right.It should be TRIM rather than ALLTRIM to preserve the blank spaces at the start.
>
>And no, it should not be +1 as this adds a spurious space after the last character.
>
>The correct code is :
>
>

This.SelStart = LEN(TRIM(This.Value))

>
>The Help file says of SelStart:
>...indicates the position of the insertion point. ...The valid range of settings is 0 to the total number of characters in the edit area of the control.
>
>Thus the insertion point for string "12345" will be after the "5" since the insertion point is counted as starting from 0 not starting from 1.
>
>This can easily be verified by actually adding this code to a form and testing the code.

Learn something new every day!

Thanks Bernard,