Jim, I am a total idiot, have already slapped myself on the head so everyone doesn't have to! I did not properly insert the name of my text box into Me.txtRequiredFieldOne, I left the txtRequired in front and only replaced FieldOne. No wonder things were not going well . . . some of us never learn! Your question about text fields caused me to go back and check one more time, and then the light bulb came on! I also tried the "IF NZ(ME!txtRequiredFieldOne, "") = "" Then" suggestion by James and it works, too. One thing I noticed, however, on either method, when I test and leave fields blank on purpose, it seems to pull up the very first message to user. Example, if I leave FieldTwo blank but complete FieldOne, the message to fill in FieldOne pops up. Have tested leaving each one blank separately, and it does not seem to matter. Leaving Fields 2 & 3 blank still brings up the message to fill in FieldOne. Also, since the 'fill in missing fields' message pops up when I click the button to close the form and take me to next order, once I click OK on the message box, it closes the form and doesn't let me back in to complete the data entry. Is it because I'm closing the form with a 'next button' where I have a close form/open next form command? Thank you again, Cathy "Jim Pettit" <j_e_pettit@hotmail To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> .com> Sent by: cc: mso-bounce@freelist s.org Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2002: Checking For Nulls On Form 06/10/2004 03:16 PM Close Please respond to mso ..... Cathy-- I;m not sure why you'd get the error. Could it be that the text fields are either not text fields at all? That is, are they some control that;s not allowed to receive focus? This may be introducing slop, but if you need to get the form up and running, you can ignore the SetFocus stuff; that was just something I like to include to help the user along. --Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 *************************************************************