No it doesn't. It can be character, if that value matches the Caption of one of the buttons. Strange, but true. We had a FUG member show some code off a few months ago showing this. I thought it was retarded but it did work.
>The value of an optiongroup MUST be numeric
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
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