>>Have you tried putting the code into the GotFocus event as Mark suggested?
>
>Er, PMFJI, but there is no such event -- I've had this page tabbing problem too, and the gotfocus might solve it if there were one (why isn't there, I wonder?)

JI anytime. You made exactly the same assumption that I did. I think that ther is a better than even chance that you can't get there from here. Maybe VFP 6.0

Bob