>>>In 1 fell swoop statement Am I able to have each textbox's forcolor take on a color of my choice when it gets the focus, then revert back when focus lost?
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>>In your textbox base class add two custom properties MyForeColor and SaveForeColor.

 * GotFocus event
>>THIS.SaveForeColor = THIS.ForeColor
>>THIS.ForeColor = This.MyForeColor
>>* LostFocus - restore ForeColor
>>THIS.ForeColor = THIS.SaveForeColor

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>I figured that would work but 1 thing I didn't mention was that this form is an older one and all the textboxes are based on the orig native textbox class. :-(

Then you'll either have to change each and every TextBox, or you'll have to change all of them to be a sub-classed TextBox.