>>>As a workaround, if you can't SetFocus() within the Valid() event, you might postpone it with a Timer (with a brief interval). But I don't know whether this works; perhaps the Valid() will then fire again.
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>>The real problem is that the form that does the setfocus is completely ignorant of the valid event. The valid() is occuring in another form
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>You could use the aStack() to see if there's a valid, range* etc somewhere on the stack. But it would still be a kludge :).

So what do people do in general?? Use the lostfocus() with a nodefault if validation fails??