Jim, what am I doing wrong? I pasted below in my form and changed the field names to appropriate fields, then opened the form, left fields blank to test, exited form, and got a 'Compile error: Method or data member not found' error. It highlighted 'txtRequiredPROJECT'(replaced my field name). I haven't used anything like this before, so please bear with me, thanks, Cathy >>Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer) If Len(Me.txtRequiredFieldOne & "") = 0 Then MsgBox "Please fill in Field One", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation, "Can't Do That!" Me.txtRequiredFieldOne Cancel = True Me.Undo Exit Sub End If If Len(Me.txtRequiredFieldTwo & "") = 0 Then MsgBox "Please fill in Field Two", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation, "Can't Do That!" Me.txtRequiredFieldTwo Cancel = True Me.Undo Exit Sub End If If Len(Me.txtRequiredFieldThree & "") = 0 Then MsgBox "Please fill in Field Three", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation, "Can't Do That!" Me.txtRequiredFieldThree Cancel = True Me.Undo End If End<< ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************