>Try to use LostFocus() instead of Valid(). I have no time to test it but I think you can make a combination of LostFocus and Valid.
This is a Foxpro 2.6 questions, I placed it in the Foxpro Windows 2.6
group. Next time I will indicate it is 2.6 so there is no confusion.
Bret Hobbs
"We'd have been called juvenile delinquents only our neighborhood couldn't afford a sociologist." Bob Hope
