Hi Sparks....i set the tabstop=False as in the following example under the exit event for each of the first four text boxes in the Batch group:

Me.Controls("txtDivision").TabStop = False

They are still numbered in the properties window with tabIndex from 1 to 4 and their tabStop property is set to False.

I assume after i tab through each of the first four batch-textboxes the exit even of each will set the tab stop to false and when i return to the beginning tabstops 1-4 will not take place and the focus will go to tab 5 which is the first with the tabstop set to True.

Does this sound like i am on course?

If so, this works, but for some reason the tab keeps coming back to the fourth text box instead of the fifth even when i have the textbox exit event change the textbox property to false.