Check out Ed Rauh's answer. It was much more complete than mine.

You can use a table in a read only fashion, or the file attribuates of the table may be set to read only. In that case, you don't have permission to modify it. That was all I meant.

But again, I think Ed has the clearest answer for you.

>Forgive me, I'm fairly new to Foxpro, and am not completely clear to the lingo.
>If you have permission on the table?
>
>JD
>
>>If you have permission on the table (ie, table wasn't open read only) and if you are on a record in the table the txtbox should be available.
>>
>>>Why would a textbox be readonly if the property "readonly" is set to False, the data type in the field it's bound to is Currency, and the checkbox for readonly is not checked in builder?
>>>
>>>Thanks ahead of time,
>>>JD