Alright, when I open up my form (frmmain), I have it so another form opens up in the background (frmlicense). How can I setfocus to the textbox (txtnum) in frmlicense? What I am trying to do is open up frmmain but have the setfocus on the textbox, txtnum, in frmlicense. I am just pulling information from a barcode scan and don't want the user to see the form in the background doing all the work. When it gets done getting the info, it puts it back into the frmmain form, for the user to see. I just need to figure out how to set the focus to that textbox. Thanks.