Thanks for your quick reply - I think that this may be what I have to do to get around the issue, although I think that for my purposes it will mean calling a sub-form with the properties as you suggest to enter the data.
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I have a db where I need to store a file path in a table, so have a form with a button to open a browser to select the path which is then put into a field - the code for this came from a Microsoft page and uses a...