>>I thought than when setting control sources on the fly you had to surround them with quotes unless the array is returning the control source as a string.
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>When trying to set them by hand in the property sheet...you're making a dynamic assignment in code of a value.

True... We're trying to determine if Arne is using this array as a kind of afields or his intention was to use the array as the control source. If the array is the control source, he would need to surround the array with quotes. Assuming that he is using as an afields, then Mike is probably right. He just has to alltrim the results.