diff --git a/src/qqq/components/forms/ChipTextField.tsx b/src/qqq/components/forms/ChipTextField.tsx
index 0b8a712..7ac76de 100644
--- a/src/qqq/components/forms/ChipTextField.tsx
+++ b/src/qqq/components/forms/ChipTextField.tsx
@@ -123,7 +123,15 @@ function ChipTextField({...props})
       setChips(chipData);
       chipsRef.current = chipData;
       determineChipColors();
-   }, [JSON.stringify(chipData)]);
+
+      if (chipType !== "pvs")
+      {
+         const currentChipValidity = chips.map((chip, i) =>
+            (chipType !== "number" || !Number.isNaN(Number(chips[i])))
+         );
+         setChipValidity(currentChipValidity);
+      }
+   }, [JSON.stringify(chipData), chips]);
 
    useEffect(() =>
    {
diff --git a/src/qqq/components/query/FilterCriteriaPaster.tsx b/src/qqq/components/query/FilterCriteriaPaster.tsx
index 0107953..79655f9 100644
--- a/src/qqq/components/query/FilterCriteriaPaster.tsx
+++ b/src/qqq/components/query/FilterCriteriaPaster.tsx
@@ -298,6 +298,10 @@ function FilterCriteriaPaster({table, field, type, onSave}: Props): JSX.Element
       let regex = new RegExp(currentDelimiterCharacter);
       let parts = inputText.split(regex);
       let chipData = [] as string[];
+
+      /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+      // use a map to keep track of the counts for each unique value //
+      /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
       const uniqueValuesMap: { [key: string]: number } = {};
 
       ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -338,7 +342,7 @@ function FilterCriteriaPaster({table, field, type, onSave}: Props): JSX.Element
          if (type === "number")
          {
             let suffix = invalidCount === 1 ? " value is not a number" : " values are not numbers";
-            setErrorText(invalidCount + suffix + "numbers and will not be added to the filter");
+            setErrorText(invalidCount + suffix + " and will not be added to the filter");
          }
          else if (type === "pvs")
          {