Hi Robert,
I will answer this and message #67199 as well.

>I forgot to mention that I use HTML to format the text in the editbox.
so In your editbox you see text like

<A HREF ...> ...</A> 

or do you see the html as in browser?

If this is the case, this is where your problems with SelStart and SelLenght comes from.
the ocx may be a little tricky on such properties. Try with oEdit.object.SelLenght instead of oEdit.SelLenght.

If it is an editbox all I can give is an excerpt out of help für both properties:
Diese Eigenschaft steht Ihnen zur Entwurfszeit nicht zur Verfügung; zur Laufzeit besteht Lese-/Schreibzugriff.

I know exactly that I can write on this, this is why I could answer your initial question

Agnes