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oh dear - quit while I'm ahead I think the link is irrelevant - I was just trying to add a grin.

Thanks LaRetta, I was thinking of 'select' as a function - wasn't in the list, should have twigged. Syntax is also not one of my strong points either. My forte is digital graphhttp://www.fmforums.com/threads/images/icons/grin.gifics. Appropriate avatar you've got - you were already chuckling at my foible. javascript:void(0)

OK - I'm misreading your instruction, sorry. I get an error alert box. SO... I have a pop up field called AVAILABLE with 2 options = YES/NO I have a text field called DETAIL In options for field (define) I check Validated by calc - Specify then... type in the following? Select <> "Yes" or not IsEmpty(DETAIL) and so you can probably see I'm doing something dumb - yes?

My apologies for not taking time to search through previous posts for answers - time is a little precious and I need a solution. I have a field that is YES/NO. If the selectin is YES I would like to force the user to enter data in a text field. I'm using FMP 6 - which I do so rarely so I'm a bit of a novice. thanks