Thanks, I removed the = sign but still getting the error message. the me.text6 contains the string of numbers seperated by a comma, which is in a table, with the field formatted as text. (524, 1003, 1004, 1006, 1007, 1014, 1051, 1052, 1053, 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1106, 1107, 1180, 1181...