>Me, and you, and Edward Pikman, and Ken Weber to name 4 of the many people who've said there's a problem; editbox isn't the right control,way to do this". Several people suggested Listbox and a textbox, as well as Grid-based solutions. She said "I can't change to something else. I have to use an editbox." Once she said she wanted to do it wrong, I gave up...I don't know a reasonable way to make an editbox behave like an array of textboxes which force you to have exactly 5 numeric characters per line and handling the string as if it were an array of char(5) that exploits an editbox.

Ed,

Ok, I see. The old "I know this wrong and I know the method has all these problems, but this is how it is going to be done regardless. Now help me get this to work even though it can't work because of the way I'm doing it" questions.

Yes, it's been a little while since I last saw one of those.

Perhaps Nadya could explain a little bit about the rationale behind the decision for the EditBox. There could be some system requirements that we don't know about yet that influence the decision to use the editbox.