Hi Angela,

Any time.

>Hi Sergey,
>
>You were right about the colours - mine were just the same. I increased the size of the field and I could then see the values. It turns out that for some reason, a field mask that was considerably larger than the scale/precision of the data source had been applied to the controls in question. When I made the field mask match the control source, I could see the characters. In this case, it seems like I was seeing the leading empty characters when selected although I could clearly see the character in the text box when the field didn't have focus.
>
>Thanks for helping me look at this in a different way!
>
>Regards
>
>