>>>You can also do something like, in Lostfocus:
>>>
>>>if empty(field)
>>> =messagebox('Must input value',etc)
>>> nodefault
>>> object.setfocus (back to field)
>>>endif
>>
>>Hmm...I tried this and it worked. I tried the exact same code before without the 'nodefault' and it didn't work. Well, hey, I still say there should be some sort of 'required' attribute for controls, but this seems to work so I guess this is what I'll use. Thanks Bruce, Michael, and everyone else for their assistance!
>>
>>By the way, aren't you people at work? What are you doing sitting in front of the computer waiting for new messages to come in? ;>
>>
>What, isn't this work? Well, we do take breaks occasionally :~)

this is the same as looking something up in the help files, except info is easier to find here...