>>i have "employee.lastname" in my textbox's controlsource property.
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>>how can i display the firstname and lastname in the same textbox?
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>In a Column, you can directly set the ControlSource = [alltrim(LastName) + ", " + alltrim(FirstName)] or something similar.
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>This doesn't work for a regular textbox; you can leave the ControlSource blank, and put the following code in TextBox.Refresh():
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>This.Value = [alltrim(LastName) + ", " + alltrim(FirstName)]
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>BTW, the [ and ] serve as another level of quotation marks. You could also alternate ' and " (single and double quotation marks), instead.
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>HTH,
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>Hilmar.
Correction: You need the outer quotation marks for the ControlSource, but not for This.Value. The second example should then be:
This.Value = alltrim(LastName) + ", " + alltrim(FirstName)
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