I am trying to learn VB.Net using VB Studio 2005 Express edition and a pretty good text book. I thought I was beginning to understand concepts until this exercise came up - now I wonder... No matter what value I put into txtOrderTotal.Text, I get the same dDiscountTotal... This is 'hand-fed' code that is directly entered from the textbook (and I verified accuracy). Is it maybe something to do with the text-to-decimal change? Here is the code: Dim dOrderTotal As Decimal Dim dDiscountPct As Decimal Dim dDiscountAmount As Decimal Dim dInvoiceTotal As Decimal dOrderTotal = txtOrderTotal.Text If dOrderTotal >= 500 Then dDiscountPct = 0.2 ElseIf dOrderTotal >= 250 And dOrderTotal < 500 Then dDiscountPct = 0.15 ElseIf dOrderTotal >= 100 And dOrderTotal < 250 Then dDiscountPct = 0.1 Else dDiscountPct = 0 End If dDiscountAmount = dOrderTotal * dDiscountPct dInvoiceTotal = dOrderTotal - dDiscountAmount lblDiscountAmount.Text = dDiscountAmount lblInvoiceTotal.Text = dInvoiceTotal txtOrderTotal.Focus() Thanks in advance for any assistance, R Brown