>is there a reason why vfp won't let you "object.setfocus" in the WHEN or VALID method.
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>just curious.

Because that's not the proper place to move control elsewhere. That's what the GotFocus/LostFocus methods are for. When all we had was When/Valid (2.6), we had to use them in that manner. Now, we have finer control of the whole event sequence.