I'm not mixing any meta data in the field names, strictly alpha characters, example: 'TFLastName'.Yhanks.

Thank you, you confirmed what I was thinking.

What's the rule of thumb when it comes to naming fields?I have been been naming like the following:  ' TFLastName '    TF for Text Field and then what the field is.Is it really necessary for me to begin the field in that manner?

Thank you, it worked.  I used the TextField and set up the Display Pattern of all z's.This way I'm able to enter the hyphen and the last 4 digits of the zip and if there is no extra 4 digits then the 5 zip code will appear without zeros.Thanks again.

I have a Numeric Field set up to hold 9 numbers for a zip code using  Display Pattern 999999999.When I only put in 5 numbers I get leading zeroes.I only want to display the numbers I put in.Sometimes I will have zip code of 9 numbers and other times only 5.What am i missing?Thank you.

I have a drop down box created, working fine with one of the options being 'Other:'.When the user clicks on 'Other:' I want them to be able to enter text at that point.   How do u do that??? 

Thank you, this worked and I learned something.

receiving this on my subform in place of the text that should be displayed.I assume this is an error code.  Where do I find what exactly it means?This is my code on a update button:  SFReasonNotes1.TReason.rawValue = Reason.getDisplayItem(Reason.selectedIndex);When pressing 'preview' then the Object...