Bonnie,

Thanks again. I will give that approach a try.

Terry Carroll

>>Thanks for the idea. I will experiment with this approach. You are developing winform apps; so do you just disable the checkbox to make it read only?<
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>Terry,
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>I don't think I have any read-only checkboxes on any of my forms yet, but disabling it (and changing the color if you don't like the disabled color) is certainly one way of handling this. This was basically what Eric was suggesting in his reply yesterday.
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>~~Bonnie