I have a form that has 36 checkboxes. (three possibilities for each of twelve items) Depending on which box is checked, a text box is updated to "Safe", "At Risk", or "N/A". Ive noticed that not every opertor has been diligent in making a selection for each item. I'd like to change that. I was going to use an if statement in the On Close event to check the resultant text boxes and if the value there was null, I'd have a message box appear indicating that that item needed to be evaluated. I did that for each of the 12 lines but this really doesn't solve my problem. I get a message box that advises me to make a selection but when I click okay, the form closes. Can someone help me out with another line of code that cancells the close and if possible places the focus at the corresponding check box? As always, I am already in your debt.