Hi Sergey,

Both Naomi's and your suggestions made me go back and step through my code again. I swear I stepped through it before. But this time, I found that my end code was not in the correct place, in one IF statement too far. I moved it out, put the setfocus back in instead of the keyboards, and it works. *red face*
thanks for all your and Naomi's help
Beth

>Try to add NODEFAULT.
>

>THISFORM.grid1.setfocus()
>NODEFAULT
>

>
>>
>>I have a form with a grid, lots of textboxes, and some buttons. In one button, if the main code there is not to be run because of something wrong with data, I want the focus to go back to the grid, highlighting the selected record. But nothing I do seems to move the focus off the button.
>>
>>Here is the ending code I have under the button at the moment:
>>

>>  THISFORM.setbuttons()
>>  KEYBOARD '{TAB}'
>>  KEYBOARD '{TAB}'
>>  THISFORM.REFRESH()
>>

>>
>>setbuttons() just enables and disables the buttons as needed.
>>I have tried:
>>

>>  THISFORM.setbuttons()
>>  THISFORM.grid1.setfocus()
>>  THISFORM.REFRESH()
>>

>>but that does not put the focus where I want it.
>>
>>TIA
>>Beth