>>>>>>Here's a weird one. I have several edit boxes where this happens. I click in the box, press Ctrl-V to paste some text. The text appears in the box just fine. Then I leave the Edit box with the tab key or the mouse and the pasted text disappears. It doesn't happen when I enter the text with the keyboard or if there's already text in the field.
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>>>>>>The control is bound to a memo field in a view. There's no code in any of the edit box methods. Any ideas?
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>>>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>>Is the view opened readonly?
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>>>>Nope. I can type text into it and it saves no problem. It's only when I paste text in. Thanks anyway.
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>>>Josh, could you try this old trick: This.Value=This.Value in control.lostfocus event?
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>>Edward, just out of curiosity, will a THIS.REFRESH accomplish the same thing in this case?
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>As far as I remember it did not in similar situations for other controls (I have not tried for editbox at all). I guess that Refresh takes Controlsource and push it to Value, and This.Value=This.Value makes opposite.

Gotcha. Thanks.