>>I think I have discovered a workaround (not a great one though). Just before I exit my custom expression builder I send the keyboard commands appropriate to the area of the report writer it was called from, that do a paste in the report expression textbox. For example in the report field builder I have to do a backtab and then a ctrl+v. I would love to not have to use be using the keyboard command so if you know of a better way that would be great.
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>'fraid I'm not much use now. Tried a couple suggestions which seemed to make sense off the top of my head. But personally I've never tried to replace the Expression Builder with anything else.
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>Sorry,
>Rich

Thanks, anyways....I'm hoping the workaround I found will be my answer.