>I don't want to stop the user from accessing anything else in Windows, but only one application(other than the one I am running). What I want to do is force the user to type something in the InputBox before they can continue working. Is there any way of doing that?
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>If not, is there a form's method that is called when a form is brough back to the top. I though Activate would work, but it does. I also tried Show, Paint, and Refresh.

I may be missing something here, but can't you just make the form modal, set the focus to the text box, and, in it's valid event, return .F. if nothing's been entered?