Yes, very nice tip about EM_SETTARGETDEVICE, wouldn't have guessed that from its description... Another thing I wanted to ask is that although I've created the RichEdit control with the WS_TABSTOP style, it seems to skip right past it to the next control on the form whenever I press TAB.

I've tried changing its ZOrder with SetWindowPos but to no avail. It seems that TAB works only for those controls which are present in the form's Controls collection. I've tried adding the RichEdit to the controls collection (Form.Controls.Add) but that requires the ProgID of the control and RichEdit doesn't seem to have a ProgID (although it does have an IID).

Is there any way to make TAB switch the focus to RichEdit controls short of hooking keyboard input and watching for VK_TAB?