A different interpretation:

It doesn't sound like you are on a userform tabbing through controls as Dove
is describing and it sounds like the textbox is already enabled as described
by Mike and Di.

It sounds like placed a textbox from the control toolbox toolbar on the
worksheet. This puts you in design mode. If you look at the control
toolbox toolbar, the first control (upper left corner - the control with the
drawing triangle) should appear depressed. This indicates you are in design
mode. This is a toggle in nature, so if you click it again, it should take
you out of design mode (it will no longer appear depressed) and the textbox
will then behave as you would expect.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"dr chuck" wrote in message
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Somehow i got out of the text box edit mode and now i can add info to the
text box. not really sure how i did that. Is there a way to tab from one
text box to the next...?

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dr chuck


"dr chuck" wrote:

I am creating an area for users to manually enter data.
I thought i would create a text box for the user to enter data into and
then
use that data in a file name that is later created. I have no problem
creating the text box but it does not seem to be editable as a user
interface?

suggestions?

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dr chuck