>>>Do you mean that it is impossible to use Setfocus in Textbox.Lostfocus?
>>>
>>No, he meant it's impossible to do this in Valid.
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>Thanks God.
>By the way, I saw a Microsoft advice, about 13 years old, that Valid is included for backward compatibility and should not be used in VFP, and I followed it by using LostFocus all times. Still alive.

Yep. And I've used setfocus from lostfocus a lot because it seems to me to be the most reliable way to get the entire text in the textbox hilighted. There are other ways naturally, but I just found this way to be most consistent.