Hi Larry ----

>No custom classes or anything... but I did notice that the class browser's code had "ADD OBJECT text1 AS Text box" three times! Once for each column.
>
>So I guess I 'must' use the class library approach, right?
>

You don't have to :-)

Try messing with the code you have to where you like it, then put the class def somewhere in your startup code and then just CREATEOBJECT out of memory when you need it.