>Mike, it works the same with 'plain VFP' and with VMP textboxes. I'd hoped that was the problem - the controls in question are inside a complicated nest of containers. Unfortunately, a test with a base form and two base textboxes gave the same results :-((
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>Barbara
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>>Are you adding VMP objects?
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>>Mike Meer

If you don't mid, could you post the code you used for the 'plain VFP' test. We want to try to reproduce on our side. VFP 5.0?