>Jim that worked just fine and thanks for your time. We are now trying to figure out where it will affect other code we have and
>just why that works in the gotfocus and not in the when. Again I thank you for your time
Bret,

That question is easy, the When fires and finishes and then the gotfocus fires. The gotfocus sets the selstart stuff by default. Anything you do in the When IS done, but then it is superceded by the default actions in the gotfocus.