>Worked like a charm. I don't really understand why, but it does.
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>Thanks for the quick help!
I am not quite sure - but I believe the properties are used for showing data which is not currently selected, whereas the properties of the contained Textbox (or other control) are used when it actually has the focus.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
