>hi fred,
>
>its me again ! sorry to disturb you, i am getting the same results. I am desperate cause i cant switch to VFP and the client wants it this way. please help!!!

I tried the ".T. NOMODIFY" and it worked just fine. The field was read only and you could still use the scrollbars. Did you put this in the WHEN and click the Expression radio button? What exactly did you try?