>sorry but it doesn't work Ed.
>All it does is give Friday as it is Friday here now.
>I want is each day of the week shown in tooltiptext property when the focus is on that record.i.e. for 07/23/98 Friday....for 07/22/98 Thursday and so on.
>Thanks once again.
>zaraq

It will work, when textbox gets focus, i.e. you explicitly click on it.