Sum of 2 texboxes = ?

Access2003 on XP2
On an un-bound "Single Form" containing 3 un-bound textboxes, I want
to add the value in box 1 and box 2 and show the sum in box 3.

Mutiply works: Me.Text4 = [Text1].[Value] * [Text2].[Value]

Divide works: Me.Text4 = [Text1].[Value] / [Text2].[Value]

Add does not work: Me.Text4 = [Text1].[Value] + [Text2].[Value]

Sum does not work: Me.Text4 = Sum([Text1].[Value] + [Text2].[Value])

Why is something this simple whipping me?

Rick

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:29:28 -0700, 2D Rick wrote:
Word's like "doesn't work" do not tell us much.
You get nothing shown in the text box?
You get #Error or #Name in the text box?
You get an incorrect result?
You get a concatenated result?
What?
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It should work but I must confess that I am not a fan of the Me
syntax.

Have you tried to perform this using:

Forms![Form Name]!Text4 = Forms![Form Name]!Text1 + Forms![Form Name]!
Text2

Another possibility is that when you perform the Multiply and Divide
operations you are triggering a refresh function for Text4 but then
you may have forgotten to do the same when you are testing the Add or
Sum operations - hence not showing the result in Text4

HTH - Max

On Jul 12, 11:00 am, fredg <fgutk...@example.invalidwrote:Sorry Fredg, I was getting the #Error in the textbox but after pokin
at it some more I got it to work.

I wrapped it with the VAL function.
Me.Text4 = Val([Text1].[Value]) + Val([Text2].[Value])

Not sure if this is the right cure but it works.

Also, thanks again for all the great solutions you have given me in
the past.
Your always dead on.

Rick

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:13:30 -0700, 2D Rick wrote:
If you are doing this directly in the control source of an unbound
control, you cannot use the Me keyword. Me is a VBA word and therefore
unrecognized by Access.
Either
=[Text1 + [Text2]
or better ....
=Nz([Text1],0) + Nz([Text2],0)

Look up the Nz function in VBA help.

Note also that since Value is the default property yo do not need to
explicitly write it.

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Max Vit <mvit@safe-mail.netwrote in
news:1184263490.778802.145600@m3g2000hsh.googlegro ups.com:
The problem is the overloading of the addition symbol as a
concatenation operator. Access is confused by which to use, so it
will concatenate unless explicitly forced to perform the
mathermatical operation

Sum() unfortunately is a SQL function, not VB. that's why it
doesn't work.

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