Hershel- Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 10:52:45 AM, you wrote: HF> Its not better, but an alternative . on focusIn put fld "x" into myVar HF> on focusOut compare the current fld with myVar. Thanks - that's an interesting approach. I'll try scripting that and see what happens. -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net