Sylvain,
Nope, not gonna work. I've tried several variations on this theme and tried placing code in several different methods (When, InteractiveChange), but nothing seems to trap it accurately.

HELP! There's gotta be a way to do this! It's not a complicated task. Any other suggestions????

Bonnie

>How about a loop that goes through each control and compare the current value of the control to the value in the ControlSource? Something like (haven't tested it):
>
>

llDirty = .F.
>
>FOR EACH Controls IN THISFORM.Controls
>   IF Controls.Value <> (Controls.ControlSource)
>      llDirty = .T.
>      EXIT
>   ENDIF
>ENDFOR
>
>IF llDirty
>   *-- Record was modified. Maybe advise the user before doing a Refresh()
>ELSE
>   *-- Everything OK, start the edit mode
>ENDIF

>HTH
>
>>I know it might be confusing, that is why I was looking for some way to detect that the record had been changed so that I could notify the user of that prior to doing a refresh(). Any other ideas on how to trap for this?