>I would sincerely appreciate help from anyone that could tell me how to easily add text box controls to a form class or subclass. In my limited knowledge it appears as though you must create the form class then create a form based on that class and add the data environment and text box controls there. Then save the new form as a class.
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>!!!! There must be something I'm missing and a better way.

No, you can modify the form class in the class designer. You can get there a number of ways. Easiest might be from the project manager under classes or thru the class browser. Open your form and design it as you would an SCX. Only difference is you won't have a data environment available.