>Tom:
>
> The field in the grid did lose focus, which is
>why the
>valid field fired off. I have my cursor sittin on
>the next
>column in the Grid and column2 was never updated.
>I put
>a messagebox in the valid clause to see that the
>This.Value
>was being updated and it was, but the control
>source was
>never updated.
>
> I will work on my FoxPro Grammer in my next
>post, I
>thought I was being as detailed as possible.
>
> P.S. I do have buffering on for this, but that
>should
>not stop me from seeing the data change in a Grid.

One suggestion ... try the got focus and lost
focus in placing your code.