>Because thisform.optiongroup.value is 1, 2, 3 ... and not the caption for the option button itself. Checking the type of thisform.optiongroup.value gives 'N' and print/displaying it also gives 1, 2, 3...
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>If this were not the case, my suggestion would crash - and it doesn't (I tried it!) :)
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>Mike

Well, all I can tell, it works just fine for me. The only difference, that I set style graphical for my option buttons.