>Inthe beginning of the code in the Save button put this ;
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> IF PEMSTATUS("_SCREEN.Activeform.ActiveControl.SetFocus",5)
>    _SCREEN.ActiveForm.ActiveControl.SetFocus()
> ENDIF
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>That will force the current control to loose and then regain focus thereby updating its controlsource.

Thanks Jim. That did the trick perfectly.

As a side note, and this is general FYI for all, I don't put any actual specific code in my toolbar buttons but in the form instead. For example, the cmdSave buttons .Click event calls a custom 'State Manager' object (term I got from an article) which uses PEMSTATUS to see if the ActiveForm has a SaveRec method and if so runs it. I also use the PEMSTATUS check for the method initially to determine the buttons .Enabled value. I have found this to be a very flexible approach to using the same toolbar class in all my forms.