>Yes, the page is working fine, and I want it to be able to have focus,
>but I don't want the blank record to be able to be saved to the database.
>Since clicking on the page is firing the Valid() event, but is not
>keeping the focus in the in the grid, there is a hole in which invalid
>data could be saved into the database.
Oh, ok. Sorry for misunderstanding. You have two options (at least): one
is to set the default value of that field so that it can't be invalid,
and the other is to set a record-level rule on your table so that you
can't save a blank field.