>>WHEN Method
>>keyboard '{tab}' CLEAR
>>return .t.
>>
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>Barbara... Just an update - I tried this, but, like a lot of other things I have tried, the WHEN event does not fire because the column is disabled.

Try this. Set the enable property to .T. and just write return .f. in the WHEN method.

WHEN Method
return .f.

HTH,
Hardik