Nathan, if you open up the form's properties there is a CYCLE property. Change that from All Records to Current Record. That will make the TAB order return to the first field on the current record instead of moving to the next record. As soon as you close the form or move off the record, the data is saved to the table. You can control what happens then with EVENT programming. For example, you could put code in the form's BeforeUpdate property that would let you CANCEL the user saving the record if they don't enter valid data - this is much better than just handling it in a button. I cover the BeforeUpdate in my Access 305 class.