> Marc: > > No, the forms are modeless. Only the form mentioned in 2) above is modal, > as is the MessageBox, of course. The problem appears to occur whenever I > try to invoke a modal form on top of a screen containing two modeless > forms. > > Any ideas? Thanks for kicking in . . . . > > John John, Guess you invoke the message box from within a valid event. Probably M$ does not want you to do this, because as long as the permission is not granted to lose focus, it is a problem to activate another form. Eehr ... , you know that you can have multiple lines (max 255 characters) in a WAIT statement, do you not. Of course, if you want your user to respond ... I guess you will have to adapt the logic, like issuing the messagebox from the lostfocus event, and eventuarl refocus the field if there is an error. Desperately HTH, Marc