>I stepped through the debugger a lot, checking every property on the grid textbox, and it appears that the .text value is always a single character, and is the first character of the column value. For example, if I look at the underlying table and the record pointer is on "Real Time Checking" then the value of GridGeneral1.Column1.Text1.Text = "R".
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Steve,

Check MaxLength property of the textbox, format and inputmask. They all should be default values. Other than that, it's odd and should not happen.

Check the ControlSource property for the column. You don't have to set it for the textbox.

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>I am going to re-visit the issue of parameter passing. I plan to use XML to do it, but that will come much later. For now, I just need to get the basics going.
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>Thanks.