Hi Bonnie,
there is no code to trace. On more thing I have 10 text boxes. all the ones within the TAB controls work but the ones outside the tab control cannot be exited.

regards,
Fred

>Fred,
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>I don't know how it could be doing validation that you don't know about, but have you tried tracing it?
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>~~Bonnie
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>>hi guys,
>>I have a textbox that is bound to a field from a dataset. if I change the value of the textbox , I cannot exit the textbox. The field is char(100) and it looks likes there is some validation going on which I don't know about. If I set causesvalidation to false then It exits without any problem. Can anyone help me?.
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>>TIA
>>Regards,