>Thanks Sergey, that got it. You were the 2nd person to suggest that.
>
>If you are so willing.....why does that work and the other does not?
>
Alan,

VFP hosted all activex controls inside OLE containers. In case #1 you directly reference activex control. In case #2 you reference OLE container and VFP internally translates it into reference to the activex. VFP wouldn't do such translatation if OLE container has the same property/method as activex control. However I don't know the reason why it dosn't work in your case.

* #1
thisform.olecontrol1.OBJECT.field("TEXT1") = "test comment"
* #2
thisform.olecontrol1.field("TEXT1") = "test comment"