Cory,

You can use the formula

[OBJ3] := [OBJ4]

where [OBJ3] is a text box object and [OBJ4] is your cell object, in the After update event of your cell object.

Thank you, I forgot about the :=, haven't used that in awhile.  However that still didn't quite give me what I needed.  The text object is populated but still no scroll bars for lenghty text.

Yuo have to click on the text object

Ah OK, thank you.  That will work.

Correction: this works in the developer but after publishing, the client side can not click on the text box to open the scroll bars.  But as I said, it does work in the developer.

works fine, for me, using 7.5.4 arcplan

using IE10

Also have 7.5.4 but tried it with IE 7 and 8.  Also tried Chrome for kicks.  No scroll bar in any.  Perhaps a java issue?

Are you certain there is enough text to make a scroll bar appear?

I'm using java 1.7 build 21

I have updated my java to build 1.7.0_25-b17.  No change.  When I click on the text box object, the cursor does not get placed into the box and I don't get scroll bars.  However it works fine in the designer.

is it possible to attach the published app folder (zipped) to here?

Could I email it to you instead?

yes

Normally adding the following scrollbar parameter to the html start page should produce a scroll bar in text objects (not cell objects):

<param name="TextScrollBars" value="1">

If this does not work, please try to copy your text to a new text object and try again.