Try it this way...

Me.Controls(tmp_box).Text

Rick


"dunnerca" wrote in message
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I have a user form that has a number of text boxes named "T1", "T2", "T3",
etc. I am writing a procedure in which I would like to access the text
box
name (since there are different items to put into the text box depending
on
the identity of the text box). Specifically, I would like to create a
variable by a command such as

tmp_box="T"&str(box_nbr)

When I then try to use this variable in something like

frm_name.tmp_box.value

It doesn't use the "T1", "T2", etc.