This is interesting. I did not know that concatinating with "&" could be so differnet from "+".

Null + string = Null
Null & string = string

>The easiest way to that is to concatenate an empty string to your field.
>

>with rstUser
>   me.txthometel = !hometel & ""
>   me.txtusrname = !usrname & ""
>   me.txtnotes = !notes & ""
>End with
>