Nadya-

>>That's really weird. It seems to be fine with something like "thisform.SomeProperty". I feel like this is a bug. Anybody else?
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>I recalled, that it was discussed here before

Cool. Was the consenus that it's a bug?

> and Bret's workaround works.

As I confirmed in my answer. Yes.

> Also you may try to surround thisform.text2.value with (), but I doubt, it would help.

No. It doesn't.