>Am I going crazy here.
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>If you put a THIS.setfocus() call in the lost focus event of a dropdown/combobox, should that not force the combobox to keep regain focus ?
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>At the moment it is not ... and I'm sure I have tried this before.
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>Any comments or suggestions?

To add to what Mike said...NODEFAULT will keep you where you are without firing anything.

This.Setfocus will allow a tab move, but fire the Gotfocus.

This.Setfocus
Nodefault

will keep you there, plus fire the Gotfocus...