>This is eactly what I would expect to happen. If a program is executing when you press the key or click the mouse button, Visual FoxPro executes the current program line and then executes the ON KEY LABEL command.
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>You will be much better off setting the form's KeyPreview property to true and using method code called from the form's KeyPress event to handle this.

Hi Marcia,

I wanted to reply to your message because it is the best solution in this discussion. ON KEY ia an intercommand interrupt and it should ONLY be used when you want to interrupt code. Otherwise you are in for lots of strange things happening.