>>>I have a textbox on page 1 as a find. It works great. So great that On page 3 I wanted to add the same thing. I copy the orig, and paste it onto page 3.
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>>>Run the app and low and behold enter text into control on page 1 it's fine. Enter text on the copy of the control on page 3 and you don't see any text in the box! Press the enter key and POOF you see it.
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>>>I'm just trying to find a SO by the SO #. No big deal. The code to run is fine and if the user did type in the proper # it does the seek and populates the proper page and all.
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>>I think either
>>a) You have pasted the textbox twice onto page 3, one in front of the other.
>>or
>>b) (probably not) you have pasted the textbox on top of the pageframe rather than inside of page 3.
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>Nope and nope. I can add a new textbox to this page and it acts like all the others (2 of them) But cut and paste it to a different page and no problem?
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>This is very goofy. Only things on this page are a grid, 2 labels, 2 text boxes, and a command button.

I'm not trying to give you a hard time but, are you sure it's not the first thing. This is absolutely typical behaviour for two controls, one on top of the other.