>Dan ---
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>Thinking about it....I just wrote a little proof of concept class and demo form. If I have time later today.
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>>>Hi Todd ---
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>>>OK, I wrote it. Who wants it?
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>>>
>>>>Mark Mccasland and I came up with an idea for a textbox that will allow users to enter numeric expressions (17+23 will be replaced with 40)
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>>>>Mark suggested, and I agree that to make it work nicely, we'll have to manually bind the textbox to a field.
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>>>>I would like to still use the controlsource property to name the field that the textbox is bound to, but I want to handle the updates to and from that field on my own. Where all do I need to place a "nodefault" setting to keep the controlsource from overridding my textbox?
>>>>
>>>>Keep in mind, I have to make sure the textbox is always a character value, and I have to make sure its big enough for the user to enter a reasonable length expression.
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>>>>Thanks!
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>>Are you going to put it in the files section? :)

Looking forward to it.