Hi Bruce,

Further to my earlier message and your reply, I have now been able to determine the scenario where the problem occurs. The lowest level form is a search with callbacks to the previous form such as:

eSourLst.GrdData.Refresh()
eSourLst.GrdData.SetFocus()
eSourLst.ShowDetail()
eSourLst.Refresh()

The purpose here is to reposition the grid to the located record. It seems that by doing this, the VFP form calling heirarchy gets confused. BTW, I have no room on the grid form to place the search criteria.

By placing a THIS.SetFocus() after calls to each of the forms, VFP finally remembers where the focus should be and the problem goes away. I know this is a different solution to what you came up with, but I felt it worthwhile repeating incase anybody else strikes the same problem.

Thanks for helping me get my thinking cap on.

Regards...Rex