>If I remove the formula and just use OSAxis I do not get the error and as expected the field is blank in the form. Go figure.<
A textbox is a variant data type so it will accept a null value without error.
>It is blank, null no value has been entered. <
blank, null and no value are three very different things.
I get no error when I put
=IIf(InStr(1,"nothing","Balance Rx")>0 And IsNull(Null),5,Null)
in the control source of a textbox. There must be something else going on with your problem. Make sure your textbox is not named PNotes, ODSph, OSAxis or ODAxis. A control cannot have the same name of a reference in the equation in its control source.