pq07818.st FORMATTED TEXT STRING: NOT RIGHT FOR NUMERIC OR MON FORMAT AbtTextViewFormatManager>>string: does not do enough. It works fine for formatted text fields who have a String format. But it does not work correctly for the Numeric or Monetary format. The reason is the Ew*Format code validates the value of the field. If it is a numeric or monetary format, it requires that a number be sent in for the value of the text field. The #string: method should detect what format is set and convert the string to the appropriate type to be sent into the widget. This problem is in VA 4.0, 4.01 and 4.02 under Windows95. File in pq07818.st to fix the problem.