Great...glad to help.

-Irv.

>Well Irv,
>
>Now I am completely baffled. I know I tried it that way before and it didn't work, but after reading your note I tried it again and it works great, so thank you.
>
>Brian
>>In Init event of a Form I do something like this:
>>
>>

>>Testvar = 'Agenttrack.name'
>>THIS.Text2.ControlSource =  Testvar
>>

>>
>>...and it works, assigning the value from the table...check your spelling and table names, etc...
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>-Irv.
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a user defined screen in which I want to assign the controsource of a textbox to a value stored in a variable.
>>>
>>>This works fine:
>>>.controlsource='ARCHIVE.FAX'
>>>
>>>I have a table called udarc which holds the field_name I want to assign as the control source
>>>unfortunately when I do:
>>>
>>>lcsource='ARCHIVE.'+udarc.field_name
>>>.controlsource=lcsource
>>>
>>>I get:
>>>
>>>the data source for this object must be a variable reference.
>>>
>>>In this case of course the value in udarc.field_name is 'FAX'
>>>
>>>How do I get this to work?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>Brian