ok user clicks a button and text1.text appears how do I get the focus to automatically move to text box (Cursor blinking waiting for input...)? there is no focus property. Thanks -- Zz

Try Text.SetFocus
I may be wrong, its been a while since I''ve used VB

He''s right. Text1.SetFocus will do it.

I forget if VB 5.0 or VB 6.0 introduced it, but there is also a Validation event you can work on. It helps you validate a field''s value BEFORE it _loses_ focus.. So you can "keep" the cursor in a text field until it recieves a valid input value.

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The Validation event was added for the 6.0 release of VB.