>Edward,
>The client wants to use certain ranges (1000-1999, 3000-3999) for different printing plate types. It has to do with how the plates are stored.
>They do not want a plate type field where your method would work great. I could choose a plate type get the counter from that table and it would work beautifully.
>I am just not sure why I cannot access a memvar from a textbox.
>Thanks for your help.
>Steve

VFP (dev team?) considers memvar stuff as backward compatibility issue and correspondingly the probability of problems (bugs) here is much higher.