If construction bug in 5.5.2 ?

[Robert Presender]

Thanks to Bob S, Mark S and Thierry for your help.  It and = can be used. The lock and unlock messages did the trick. Mark-- thanks for the info re select difference in 5.5.2 which required the lock stuff.

I finally came up with:

on openField
   answer information "Want to enter a new value?"  with "No" or "Yes"  titled "New Amount"
  lock messages
  If it = "Yes" then select text of me 
  unlock messages
end openField 

"No" works as it should without any reference to it.

Bob
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