Having trouble dealing with these textboxes

[blacksaibot]

First I get the error saying "you can't reference a property or method for a control unless..." blah blah blah

so I used .SetFocus on the textbox.

txt_startdate.setfocus
str_start = txt_startdate.text
 
txt_enddate.setfocus
str_end = txt_startdate.text

Now it says this error: "Run-time error '424': Object required"

The debugger highlights txt_enddate.setfocus



What am I missing here? (Programming in VBA, Acecss 2007)

[pbaldy]

If you eliminate the ".Text", you will not need to set focus. .Value is the default, and it's what you want anyway.

[blacksaibot]

If you eliminate the ".Text", you will not need to set focus. .Value is the default, and it's what you want anyway.

Still getting the same error.

Nevermind. I put .value at the end, but took that off too and it works