>Lets say i have 2 forms named form1 and form2...ok?
>i want a button to make form1's textbox text to append the the end of form2's textbox.
>i understand: Form2.Text1.Text = Form1.Text1.Text
>but this clears out Form2.Text1's text and replaces it with Form1.Text1's Text.
>I want to beable to do this:
>Form2.Text1.Value = Form2.Text1.Text + Form1.Text1.Text
>but it doesn't work i click the button and it keeps copying over the current value of Form2.Text1.Text and I want to keep it...

David, if you are referring to what you actually see in the form it may happen because your textbox1 is not long enough to fit the concatenated text from 2 textboxes (considering the trailing spaces in your Textbox1.text property.

Nick