Steve,

You can write code into the KeyPress to provide special handling of the tab key, something along the lines of:

LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl

if ( nKeyCode = 9 )
   this.SelText = chr(9)
   nodefault
endif

>I started out with this in the editBox. I guess it's only the tab key that does not behave
>as would be expected in a word proc. document.