Mark,

As Nick Necludov suggested me, I use this.text1.ResetToDefault('value') and it works great!

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>>I'm creating SetDefault method for our valrange class. This method should set empty value, e.g. '' for character string, {} for date, etc. I'm wondering is there a way to set it by one command, or I need to check type('this.value') for each cases?
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>The only thing I can think of that works universally is setting the value to null which is not really empty. To the best of my knowledge, to properly do this based on data type, you would have to use a case statement and the Type() function.