Great! I like that option and it's simple enough. I will look into the buffering as well for a future enhancement...

thanks!

>...but I'd like to override to display a pop-up to tell the user they need to press the add/new button or the edit button first.
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>Make your own TextBox Class and use it for your forms.
>In the KeyPress Event of the class have a code like the following:
>

>LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
>IF This.ReadOnly Then
>	Wait window Nowait "Press Edit Button First!" && you can use MessageBox() function or some other notification
>EndIF
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>HTH