Greetings Marcia

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>This is all untested and written off the top of my head, so you will need to tweak it. But you get the general idea...
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Indeed, and its even simpler than your code because I don't intend to let users edit in grids (or if they do the validation will be part of the grid code)

so all I needed was the syntax for the "_Screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl"

Does this work if the active control is on a page on a pageframe on a form? If so, then thats exactly what I'm looking for

Thanks

Harry