I'm sorry to keep buggin everyone with my questions... but the book that I have is not advanced enough for what I am trying to do, and i have not had the opportunity to get a better one. At the moment I am trying to pull a bunch of information out of a database and put it in text boxes so the information can be edited.. and then click an update button and have all information be updated in the db.. i have the code to pull it from the DB, but it does not allow for editing, it is just displayed on the screen.. thanks for your help everyone.