I think that a combination of your suggestion and Marty's is the way to go...

>>Seems to me counterintuitive. I think a better way may have been to have the default button be the second button and leave "Yes" reserved for confirming the delete.
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>>>I have a customer complaint that the Delete routine was too easy even when you had the messagebox that required them to verify the delete. He said that power mousers will hit yes before they read...
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>>>So my solution was...
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>>>LOCAL lnAnswer
>>>lnAnswer = MESSAGEBOX("CAUTION You have selected DELETE!";
>>>  +CHR(13)+"Do you Want to Cancel this Delete?", 36, "Delete Record")
>>>IF lnAnswer = 7  && No was selected
>>>...
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>I had my confirmation msgbox default to NO for "are you sure you want to delete?", so that if they hit enter too fast, it does not delete. They actually have to choose 'Yes' rather than just confirnm it with enter...