>From a child form, I wanted to reset a optionGroup1.Buttons(5) in the parent form.
>But when I say
>ParentForm.OptionGroup1.Button(5).SetFocus()
>The child form goes into the background, the parent comes to the foreground,
>and I can no longer use any of the controls on the forms. However, the little dotted square
>has now surrounded ParentForm.OptionGroup1.Button(5). Is the way to set the focus without the
>forgoing problems.
>Thanks
>Steve

Not easily. That's the whole purpose of Setting Focus is to make it active.

About the only thing I would think you could do is wait to set the parentform OptionGroup Focus until you're closing the Child form.