>The first column in my grid is vendor number. If the user enters an existing vendor I would like to skip the next two columns and move immediatetly to the date field. I have tried several things but the cursor move the the next column forcing the user the press the enter key two extra times.

It depends some on how you want to move them...for just the enter key, you could put code like:

if nkeycode = 13     && Enter key was pressed
  nodefault
  this.parent.parent.columnX.setfocus    && X is whatever column
endif

in the textbox Keypress event