>>Or any other app outside of the vfp app. If focus is on a textbox on a form, and the user clicks on outlook, how to make the lostfocus of the textbox fire. It only seems to fire when clicking on any other form inside the vfp app....
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>Hi Tracy, I haven't done much VFP for a while but from memory the Deactivate event of the Form should fire when you click on another form - you could put your textbox LostFocus code in a common Method and call it from the Deactivate event of the form ( got to be worth a shot ) .
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>HTH

It doesn't fire when you switch to another program, only when you switch to another VFP form.