Chris,

>Still you are right that it is a stupid problem. Do you know any reason that VFP textboxes behave like this? We had some ideas like maybe old data entry mainframe systems might have worked like that so they wanted to keep all the old data entry clerks happy?

If I ever asked this of someone at Microsoft I don't recall the answer. I can't fathom why it would behave like this. AFAIR FPW2.x did not behave like this, I've never seen any other textbox control work like this either. The fortunate thing is that it is so easily fixed in VFP.