Hi Paul,

That will make life much simpler. Thanks for the tip.

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>>UPDATE: I did get this to work. I limited the number of controls I have to search through by putting them in an mmgroupbox and used an arraylist to make it easier to work backwords from the control name to the correct text value.
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>You don't actually have to run through all of the controls. The Control collection has a Find() method, ex:
>
>

>string name = "textBox1";
>Control[] control = this.Controls.Find(name);
>if (control.Length > 0 && control is TextBox)
>{
>   TextBox txt = (TextBox)control[0];
>   txt.Text = "My Control";
>}
>

>
>Or, even simpler:
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>

>string name = "textBox1";
>Control control = this.Controls[name];
>TextBox textBox = control as TextBox;
>if (textBox != null)
>{
>   textBox.Text = "My Control";
>}
>