>It works -- but not all the time [at least in this case]. It works on the first tab I select, but not the next. I can't establish a pattern. One thing that works every time is to click on the tab twice. Once I do that it works every time that tab is selected from that time forward [until the form is closed].
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>I put the setfocus in the page activate method. Could this be causing the problem?
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it goes in the GOTFOCUS of the TEXTBOX, not the ACTIVATE of the PAGE.
>Thanks,
>Doug