I think you've kind of lost me. Your original message said..
"I am creating a tab form that began flickering when the mouse ran over the
unattached labels that I had created . It was suggested that I replace the
labels with text boxes. Please help with creating text boxes"
So you were going to create textboxes (or change the labels to textboxes) so
that the flickering would stop - correct?
It sounds like you have it working by putting the static text you want to
display in the default property for the textbox that is unbound.
If it works, and the flickering has stopped, great.
Sorry you couldn't get the other to work, but what you've now described
sounds fine. You can modify the properties of the textbox so it looks like
a label (i.e. flat, locked, etc.)