Not sure, if this is what I was thinking of, but take a look at this message Re: Select on entry?? Thread #1241224 Message #1241443 and may be whole thread.

>>>Good evening,
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>>>I was wondering if someone can help me to confirm the following VFP behaviour.
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>>>I have a control based on a textbox (used for global Seek/Find) that I place on various forms. A customer reported to me and I can sometimes duplicate the following issue. When I click into this textbox (and the textbox has no entry) the cursor stays right in the place where I click and does not go to the beginning of the textbox. It does not happen often but does happen. My question is the following: Does it indicate the there is an empty string in the textbox when the cursor does not move to the beginning of the textbox? In other words, if the textbox has no entry, the cursor should automatically jump to the beginning of the textbox, right?
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>>>Thank you in advance for any help.
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>>Do you have FORMAT or INPUTMASK set for the textbox ? I believe I discussed this problem before, need to search for specifics.
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>The textbox has Format set to "!". No input mask. But I think it has something to do with the entry of empty string that somehow gets there.