>>It's a very curious behavior, thanks for bringing this up.
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>I found this by accident; I had copied the TextBox from another form, and it happened to have the ControlSource, which in the original was tied to an actual field.
I always use AliasName.columnName for ControlSources. If we omit AliasName anything can happen.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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