>Sergey,
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>Thanks for your response. One last question - what if the text box in question is within a container object such as a grid? how do i reference that object?

In this case Activecontrol will be a grid and you'll have to drill down to find which control in grid has a focus. The code in either of the following messages could be used with slight adjustments to acomplish that:

_Screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl.Setfocus() and Grids Message #478750
Activecontrol questoin Message #623022