The answer to the problem is to set the NextControl property using Avenue. There's a bug or something with the dialog designer interface that doesn't allow it to always work. Thanks to Ruth Bowers, Gerald Thornberry and Terese Rowekamp for their responses. Original question: I have a dialog box with a number of text lines and a combo box. I have set the "Next Control" for each text line and the combo box so a user will tab through the dialog in order. Everything works fine except the combo box. Whenever I tab from the combo box it takes me back to the first text line in the dialog box instead of the text line its "Next Control" is set to. Todd Plank SSI Services tplank@ssihbg.com