John,
It sounds like your navigation buttons are based on the wzstyle.vcx? Is that right? If so, there is a property called nWorkArea that gets set in the initializaion of the object (I don't remember *exactly* where). You can modify the underlying class to change it's operation. Or, if you're comfortable with VFP concepts, making your own is an option...

>I currently have a page frame with two pages on a form and a set of record navigation buttons beneath it. When the form is run and the first pageframe is active the buttons step through the records and refresh the form with new records. However when the second pageframe(which contains a different set of textboxes controled by another table) is active the buttons continue to step

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