Can your program tell whether the user is adding or editing? If not, make it be able to tell (like set up a form-level property like prplAdd and make it be True if the user hits the add button on your form).

Assuming that mynumber1 (visible) and mynumber2 (hidden) are the objects, do this in mynumber1's LostFocus, Valid or InteractiveChange event, whichever is most convenient (the InteractiveChange fires with every keystroke & may not be your best bet, but it will update the other object with every keystroke and may be just what you want).

WITH Thisform
.mynumber2.value = .mynumber1.value
ENDWITH

That's it!

JR

>Can anyone please help!!!!
>I have generated a form using the wizard. My problem is I have
>two numeric fields. I want the second field to be hidden on the
>form, and when I Enter something in the first field I want the
>value of that field to be stored in the second field as well but
>only when i create a new record, NOT when I am editing it.
>
>Any suggestions
>
>Thanks
>Fida Shamsoodeen