Maybe it's my memory doing tricks on me, because I did not remeber that you can. However, I still think an editbox is the right object for this purpose. But you may have other preferences. That's one of the cool features with VFP, there are usually more ways to get the same result.

>Not quite true, Tore
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>Make a textbox double high and use the code:
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>thisform.mytextbox1.Value = "hello" + CHR(13) + "world"
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>and you get more trhan 1 line.
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>Terry
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>>Then you must use an editbox, a textbox can not display more than one line. Thisform.myEditbox.value=TableName.Name + chr(13)+chr(10) + TableName.Address