>>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?
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>This a job for ... ComboBox.
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>Alex.

I know a ComboBox will work, but I was hoping there was another way to do this. I really only want to display text on the screen with a transparent background, so that the user will only see the text and not the dropdown arrow and ComboBox border.

I suppose that I could set the border and background colors to the same color as my main screen then mask out the dropdown arrow with a rectangle of the same color as the main screen.

I was hoping there was a less "messy" way to do this, ...

Gregg.