Yes but in my experience, 6 months from now I may want to call setfocus to another control when the date is valid and BANG I have an error. Why take the risk. Lostfocus works and I don't have to worry about getting the error.

>Oh, you can't call SETFOCUS() from VALID(). But that is normally a separate issue from data validation. And you can return a number from VALID() to indicate how many controls to move forward or backward.
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>>Steve,
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>>I think it was "you can't call a valid from a click event" or something like that.
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