Hi Paul

Sorry.... caption VFP term but text property is what I was looking for.

Thanks again for your help.

regards,

Gerard



>>Hi Paul.. thanks for your reply.
>>
>>Thats exactly what I want.
>>One more question...
>>If I wanted to cycle through each of these text boxes and say assign a caption to each of them,is that possible ?
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by caption?
>
>At any rate, you can cycle through the Controls collection and set anything you need to:
>
>

>foreach(Control control in this.Controls)
>{
>   TextBox txtbox = control as TextBox;
>
>   if (txtbox != null)
>   {
>      txtbox.Text = txtbox.Text + " More Text";
>   }
>
>}
>