another collections problem

amazingly enough i figured it out before i looked at this lol..thank you very much anyway :)

Well, you have the Do...While loop. You'll probably need an If... Then statement to compare the value of the checkbox collections :-) Seriously, this is a pretty easy assignment. Good thing I don't know your instructor... OK assuming that your textbox collection is named textboxcollection and that you've filled them properly insert the following code into the loop: If checkboxcollection(intindex).Checked then textboxcollection(intindex).enabled = True Else textboxcollection(intindex).enabled = False End If That's it, but it's also the long way around. Notice that the If statement is a boolean comparison. I could have easily written the comparison: If checkboxcollection(intindex) = True then... but I didn't. The Checked property is boolean as is the Enabled property, so instead of writing the whole If statement I could just as easily write: textboxcollection(intindex).Enabled = checkboxcollection(intindex).Checked This is not always a good idea to do, but in this case it'll work fine and is probably what your instructor is looking for.