Spot on! Thanks
Bob Phillips wrote in message
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Peter,

Is this happening the first time you call up the form, or on subsequent
calls to the form,? If the latter, you might want to try the
UserForm_Actgivate event.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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"pcrobinson" wrote in message
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Hi
having loaded a userform I want to enter data in the first text box
without having to click in it with the mouse first. The tab order is
correct
and I have tried the command "textbox1.setfocus"
in the userform initialization code but this does not work and I still
have
to click the mouse in the text box before entering.
Thanks for any help
Peter