Hi. I've came across something that has puzzled me. I've a template, which
has three edit boxes (added with the Controls toolbar). Whenever I try to
save, I check that the edit boxes have text (querying the sixe:
editBox.TextLength). If all of them have text, the I allow the user to save.

So far, so good. That works perfect when I'm working with the dot. When I
create a doc based on it, the editboxes appear, but, they always say that
their text size is zero, with or without text! I really have no idea what's
going on. I'm working on Office 97 Pro.

Thanks in advance,
Ignacio Burgue?o

Hey Ignacio,

Check how the TextLength Property handles text in your "EditBox"? The developer
of this control should have provided documentation that gives instructions on its
methods, properties and events. Use the Object viewer in the VBA to do that.
Normally, for a TextBox or MaskEditBox control the TextLenth property returns 0
and a non-zero integer if some text is in the box. One wild guess without knowing
the interworkings of your EditBox control is that whenever it's loaded you may be
clearing/deleting its content even you have progammatically assigned some string
in your intinialize event method.

Good luck.

Otman Estrada