Hey, she liked your answer, so that's what matters. :) She must be adding a new record. Another reason to you may want empty textboxes is when you want *no* record to be displayed...

>Well I am not the smartest man in the world but one big reason to clear all the textboxes it to add a record, the only other reason I can think of is a search screen that might be a little to busy for end-users
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