In my opinion, this is the way to do it...a global error handler should be set-up and this is one of the errors it could handle....

Joe


>Try using an error handler
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>on error do errhandler()
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>errhandler()
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>if error() = 1582
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>endif
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>1582 I think is the error number for a field validation error. You can check in the help contents of Visual Foxpro under the Technical Reference.