In the ACTIVATE event of the page:

with this
.myControl.setfocus
endwith

This will force focus from the tag to the control. However, you will loose the abilty to use the arrow keys to "pan" through the page tabs in the pageframe.

>I have been trying to get rid of an annoying graphic problem on a Page Frame. And while VB appears to let you turn it on or off, I cannot find anything in VFP that will allow me the flexibility of turning off those little dotted line boxes that appear around words on the tab. They quite frankly look ugly!
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>We are using VFP v6.00 with sp3.
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>Any assistance would be truly greatful.
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>Jack Wilson
>Northwest Software...