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

What's wrong with this? I mean, with This.property? The active object should be a grown up entity, capable of taking care of itself.

There's a couple of gotchas with "_Screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl" - first, it may be nonexistent at times (like when some object has lost focus, and another object's When is executing - so the other object's .GotFocus is still pending, and may yet not execute at all, if the .When returns .f.). Second, the "_Screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl" may be a container of any kind - grid, pageframe, container, button group, or other, so you would have to drill down to find which member of the container's controls is the active object.

You were warned :).