>Never mind...
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>I guess the textbox and combobox objects all need to be enabled ahead of time for this to work the way I am doing it. But I am not sure I like it that way because then all of the objects appear in a non-faded out gray making them look as though they are enabled when they are not. Six of one, half-dozen of another. Does anyone else do it this way? And leave all the forms' objects enabled all the time?

You can use the when event to prevent focus until the proper conditions arise:
return !empty(.txtRequiredFirst.Value) && Don't have to chage disbaled FG/BG
or you can change disabled FG/BG colors