Mike is quite right about ActiveControl. One further point, however: If you are on a grid the ActiveControl.name will give you the grid name, not the textbox or column name.

Barbara

>I have set my form's keypreview property to .T. and from within the keypress event of the form I am trying to figure out how to tell which control has focus when a key is pressed.
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>How can I do this?
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>Thanks,
>Paul