>>Also, depending on what you're doing, issuing a Show will activate it, which
>>is a form's version of setfocus...
>
>Where do I put the .Show()? I tried the Init event, but to no avail.

I guess the question is, what are you trying to do? Ordinarily , if you just DO FORM etc, it becomes active (has "focus") when its Activate fires...but it won't have "focus" earlier when the Init fires...so one solution is to just move any code needing focus to the form's Activate event...