Thanks for the suggestion, it would have worked!
but I am using Craig's for the same reason you said.
it is cleaner. But thank you for the help.
I appreciate it.

:-)

>UPDATE: I just saw Craig's reply and it works and is much cleaner!
>
>Create a form property called onkeyenter and set its initial value to ""
>Then in the checkbox's gotfocus method put:
>

>thisform.onkeyenter=ON('KEY LABEL','ENTER')
>ON KEY LABEL ENTER KEYBOARD '{TAB}'
>

>and in the checkbox's lostfocus method put:
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>LOCAL lconkey
>lconkey=thisform.onkeyenter
>ON KEY LABEL ENTER &lconkey
>