>Nadya:
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>Save This.Value to This.Tag on GotFocus and compare This.Tag to This.Value at the beginning of your Valid event and stop validating if the values are equal.
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>You may want to do the same thing if This.ReadOnly is True.
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>It is not perfect but it 's easy to implement.
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>Daniel

Ok, I like this suggestion, though it will require some work.