>The trees are so thick I can't see the forest. I want a clean close of a form without valid's firing if close button is clicked. Does anyone have a clean quick solution? I am making it way to complicated, I think. The valid events of the objects fire before any code in the button runs. Can I change that or is there a decent work around?
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>Thanks, Chuck

Set the button's Cancel property to .T. - in all Valid events that are coded, only run the Valid code if LastKey=27 (Escape key). With the Cancel property set to .T., it will set LastKey to 27.