>>>Oh, you're in vfp5? selectonentry works for me, but there must be something in the text box for it to work...no format is needed.
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>>All my text boxes have data in them, and it still don't work! Strange...
>>Jon
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>That's strange. Test things by creating a new form with 2 or 3 textboxes, then run it, enter some text and tab thru them. You should select all the text. Of course set selectonentry to T, but no format...

Bruce,

It will work that way. My text boxes in question are all on a container, placed within a grid column. They get focus because the little bar is there. Another strange thing is I can only select text by triple clicking OR click-hold and move right to left! NOT left to right! Hmmm? What do you think of that one?