>Edward,
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>I tried removing the controlsource but I STILL couldn't see what I was typing in the text field!!
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>I can put my cursor in the field, and SEE my cursor AND SEE IT MOVE AS I TYPE! But the characters don't display
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>Thanx,
>Joe

May I make some funny assumption that Text.Backcolor=Text.Forecolor ? If not, I give up.