>Fantastic Rich!! many thanks - that did the trick.
>Is there a NOWAIT feature i can throw in there somewhere.??
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>I did follow up on Naomi's suggestions and read vfp help and some detailed feature articles for hours last night but could not make any headway in the modify/do form category. Creating the form and getting it to appear is no problem - it's the filling up the form with data that i have reached a deadend. I would need a complete sample code in this area and work backwards to figure it out since i have no examples to study. If you can provide a link to a functioning code that i could use - that would be greatly apprecated
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>All that said however - i am extremely grateful to you and Naomi for getting my editbox up and working outside my vfp page - that's a tremendous help. thanks so much
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>k

You might start with something like

Receiving Form (MyReceivingForm) Init Method
LPARAMTERS tcLongString
thisform.myEditBox.value = tcLongString


Calling Form cmdButton (or whereever)
DO FORM MyReceivingForm WITH longStringValue

Using the Visual Form Builder is very easy once you get the hang of it. Make sure you have the Form Controls toolbar and the Property windows visible. You can then drop the controls onto the form and set the properties in the window. Double-click on a control and all the methods become available for you to edit.

MUCH easier (IMO) than trying to build everything in code.