In general when you have a textbox normally best to use the validate or lostfocus event to execute some code when the focus is lost on that textbox (so when editing the textbox is done execute the code)

This normally is fine when staying inside vb forms,
but when changing from the VB form to let say notepad or word external application, the focus stays on the VB form's textbox and no code is executed and i do want te code to be executes, so maybe i have to force a lostfocus event when de form is no more activated (i allso tried to use the form events deactive, lostfocus and no succes, they are not triggered)
Any idea's?