Hi Everybody.

I have a wee problem that has evaded my best efforts over the past
couple of days and I hope one of you out there can shine some light for
me.

The problem centres on two form controls. Essentially there is a text
box and a list box. For each entry of the list the user must enter a
conversion rate into the text box. The user clicks a list item then
enters a value into the text box. The user then either clicks another
list item or decides to do something else. My problem begins with
validation of the text box entry. I do not wish to use a textbox_change
event, but rather wait until the user clicks another list item or other
control, before I trigger the validation. If validation is true, no
problems. However, if validation is false, eg. the user entered a word
string, no matter how I code it, using textbox_Exit (with Cancel =
true, or enable = false then true, etc) or other text box event, or a
_listbox event, I am not able to figure out how to both keep focus on
the incorrect text box entry and force the list box to stay on the
offending list item. My best to date has been to keep focus on the
textbox offending entry, but the listbox moves to the new user
selection.

If anybody can shed some light on how I might do this without having to
include a dedicated 'OK' button for each new user entry, I would be
most grateful

Ciao for now.

chatterbox