Ok, I've tried returning .f. from the textbox "when" method. It still changes colors, there's just no cursor showing.

Would your solution involve the overlying shape approach? That would be great if it will solve my problem, um... challenge :)

Thanks

>Larry,
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>Good luck *g*
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>Seriously is it a readonly grid? If it is there would be a way to keep focus out of the cell.
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>If not, I think you have to play with the settings of the Textbox itself to get it to do what you want.
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>>PMFJI, but I'm looking at your class to highlight a grid row using a shape object. What I want is to keep the entire row highlighted and not have the selected cell be colored differently. For example, if I highlight record #1 by clicking in column #1, then all cells get highlighted except the cell in column #1.