I tried it with both SET MESSAGE TO "" and SET MESSAGE TO " " in LostFocus. The "OPT:1/3" message still appears after LostFocus.



>>Your suggestion works up until the control loses focus.
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>>I toyed with it and found that if I reissue SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF after a data change (Interactive Event AND/OR SELECT...INTO etc) the problem is taken care of.
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>>Thanks for the suggestion though,
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>>Richard
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>SET MESSAGE TO "" in the LostFocus should take care of that.