Eric,

Are you sure you've spelled the controlsource for the text box correctly? Also, you should do THISFORM.Refresh() after you APPEND BLANK.

>Sawadee Kahp,
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> I have a form which has the DE loaded in Init. On the form are some controls. I have textboxes which I assign new controlsource properties to, and editboxes that I do the same to. When APPEND BLANK to enter data, the textbox is nonfunctional, and the editbox works fine. Problem is, one field is a date type. I cannot use a date datatype in an editbox. The textbox is !ReadOnly, !Disabled and is treated the same when loading the DE. Can anyone tell me why it will not accept input? A good guess will do...:)
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>Eric K.