Richard,
Like Rupert, I would like to show some visual aid as to where in the form they are, without having to search for the blinking cursor. I would like all my textboxes on all my forms to have a default backcolor which changes to another color when they receive focus and changes back to the default backcolor when focus is lost. But I'm new to access and not sure of what text to write in the two events. Can you help with this? I don't mind having to go to each text box to enter the text in the events. Thanks in advance.