In your module put:
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Public Sub PassFields(ByVal txt1 As TextBox, ByVal txt2 As TextBox, ByVal txt3 As TextBox, ByVal txt4 As TextBox)
        txt1.Text = "Text1"
        txt2.Text = "Text2"
        txt3.Text = "Text3"
        txt4.Text = "Text4"
End Sub
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From your form:
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PassFields([TextBox1Name], [TextBox2Name], [TextBox3Name], [TextBox4Name])
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J

Thank you for your help.
But, let me put one additional question:
What do you exactly mean by TextBox1Name?
Is it "txt1", or txt1.Name ?

This is whatever you name your first textbox on any of the forms, assuming that each form has different names for each of the textboxes.

So if on your 1st form, you have the first textbox named as "txtForm1Textbox1", then you would write:
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PassFields(txtForm1Textbox1, [TextBox2Name], [TextBox3Name], [TextBox4Name])
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-replace the last 3 with the names of the other textboxes on your 1st form.


On your second form if you have the first textbox named as "txtForm2Textbox1", then you would write:
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PassFields(txtForm2Textbox1, [TextBox2Name], [TextBox3Name], [TextBox4Name])
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-replace the last 3 with the names of the other textboxes on your 2nd form.

Realize that your are passing the textbox itself as the object and not just a string(it's name). If we look again at some of the previous posts, I believe this is what Brian(bmains) said.

J

Two things confuse me in your explanation:
1. We discuss a real example where we have 20 forms with text boxes named txt1, txt2, txt3 and txt4, and you introduce some general names such as txtForm1Textbox1.
2. You don't seem to answer, how will the module procedure PassFields know, which form does the call come from (which form's txt1, txt2, txt3 and txt4 should it fill).

txt1, txt2, txt3, and txt4 in my example are NOT the names of the textboxes on the forms. They are arguments accepted by the sub.

txtForm1Textbox1 is a name that I have supplied (it is equal to txt1 in your example - I would probably name them a little differently, but you can use what you want). The reason that I used this name as the example is that I wanted to show you how I was using the different textboxes on different forms to access the same sub.


It knows because you are passing the textboxes as arguments to the procedure.

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Public Sub PassFields(ByVal txt1 As TextBox, ByVal txt2 As TextBox, ByVal txt3 As TextBox, ByVal txt4 As TextBox) ' - arguments accepted in blue

        txt1.Text = "Text1"
        txt2.Text = "Text2"
        txt3.Text = "Text3"
        txt4.Text = "Text4"
End Sub
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PassFields(txtForm1Textbox1, [TextBox2Name], [TextBox3Name], [TextBox4Name]) ' - arguments being passed in blue


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J

Now I understand. And it works perfectly. Thank you very much for your help and for your patience!

Mladen

My pleasure ;)

This works when passing these textboxes by value? I have a similar question to that of one posted above; how can the function possibly be changing the correct textbox if passed by value?

Look up reference types. Read this on passing reference types byval:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...parameters.asp

It is in C#, but it explains what is happening.

J