Nevermind I got it. The nulldisplay property on the textbox was set to ""

Thank you all for the help.

>Now it's displaying quotes in all of the cells in the column. I tried SET NULLDISPLAY TO ' ' and even SET NULLDISPLAY TO space(0).
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>Any ideas?
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>>>would that apply to a cursor that I created?
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>>Sure, if it's editable. Only "gotcha" with ALTER TABLE on cursors is that it zaps long field names, if you have any.