Adding a space worked fine for me, but maybe I'm not doing the same thing you're talking about...I set up an experiment whereby, when you click a button, it adds " 2" (notice the space before the 2...the quotes were not included in the actual text I put in the value field - they're just in this post to make what I typed clearer) to a variable and then changes the contents of a text box to the value of that variable. The first time I clicked the button I got:2The next time I clicked the button I got2 2The next time I clicked the button I got2 2 2 And so on...Is that what you're looking for? Is that what you tried?Laura