>This may have an obvious answer, but here goes anyway ...
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>Suppose you have a region field in a table that is numeric, with values ranging from 1 to X. In a form you want to display a text string depending on the value of this field.
>i.e. value of 1 = "Eastern Region", 2 = "Western Region", 3="Central Region", etc. (Similar to what you can do in FP 2.x with a @...say field and an IIF() statement.)
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>Can this be done with a text box? if so, how? if not, then what is the easiest alternative?

>> The easiest way to DISPLAY is a Label Control with Init Code: This.Caption=IIF(...), the same can be used for Textbox (especially with Format="M". But the consistent solution is a lookup table containig ID and Names (like 'Eastern Region',etc.) and Combobox control.