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I have the focus on a form locked onto a graph and do not seem to be able to move it to any other field on the form via vba.

Very strange!

Any help welcome.
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With the focus on a graph, you may have to us the parent.  I've not tried that before, but depending on where the code is that is executing this, you may need to try something like:

me.parent.setfocus

or possibly

Forms!yourFormName.Form.setfocus

or

Forms!yourFormName.Form.SomeControlName.Setfocus
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I have tried....

Me.txtboxname.SetFocus - no luck but no error
Forms!myform.txtboxname.SetFocus - no luck but no error
Forms!myform.Form.txtboxname.SetFocus - no luck but no error
Me.Parent.SetFocus - no luck, error - invalid reference to the parent property

Regards
On what event do you have your code? Is txtboxname the actual name of the textbox control?
There is a lot of code running off the back of an after update event, please see code below....

You will have to excuse my clumsy programming as i am no access programmer.

The problem started when i wanted to display a graph, to get the graph to display i needed to double click it so i simulated the mouse click.  When i do that it works but it leaves the graph data table on show - to get rid of that i need to click into any other box which is why i was trying to change the focus to a text box and click on it.

Private Sub Measure_AfterUpdate()
    Dim a As String
    Dim b As String
    Dim c As String
    Dim d As String
    Dim e As String
    Me.Unit.Requery
    Me.[Sort Criteria] = Me.Year & Me.Period & Me.Measure
    Me.[Sort Criteria 2] = Me.Year & Me.Measure
    Me.[Sort Criteria 3] = Me.Year - 1 & Me.Period & Me.Measure
    a = DLookup("[Unit]", "tbl_PDM_TargetProjects", "[Measure]=Forms!frm_PDM_Results.Measure")
    b = DCount("[Sort Criteria]", "tbl_PDM_Results", "[Sort Criteria] = Forms!frm_PDM_Results.[Sort Criteria]")
    c = DCount("[Result]", "tbl_PDM_Results", "[Sort Criteria]=Forms!frm_PDM_Results.[Sort Criteria 3]")
    If c = 1 Then
        d = DLookup("[Result]", "tbl_PDM_Results", "[Sort Criteria]=Forms!frm_PDM_Results.[Sort Criteria 3]")
        Me.PYR = d
        strSQL = "UPDATE tbl_PDM_Results" & " SET tbl_PDM_Results.[Previous Year Result] = " & d & " WHERE [Sort Criteria] = Forms!frm_PDM_Results.[Sort Criteria 3]"
        With DoCmd
            .SetWarnings False
            .RunSQL strSQL
            .SetWarnings True
        End With
    End If
    If b = 0 Then
        If IsNull(Measure) Then
            MsgBox ("Enter Measure")
            Me.Result.Locked = True
            Me.Measure.SetFocus
        Else:
            Me.Unit = a
            Me.Result.Locked = False
            CurrentDb.Execute "delete * from tbl_PDM_Results WHERE [Result] is NULL"
            Me.frm_PDM_Results_subform.Visible = True
            Me.SubformLabel.Visible = True
            Me.Graph1.Visible = True
            Me.Graph1.SetFocus
            Call LeftClick
            Call LeftClick
            Me.Result.SetFocus
            Call LeftClick
        End If
    Else:
        e = MsgBox("Record exists, do you want to update an existing record?", vbYesNo)
        If e = vbNo Then
            Me.Year = Null
            Me.Period = Null
            Me.Project_Category = Null
            Me.Measure = Null
            Me.Unit = Null
            Me.Sort_Criteria = Null
            Me.[Sort Criteria] = Null
            Me.[Sort Criteria 2] = Null
            Me.[Sort Criteria 3] = Null
            Me.Year.SetFocus
        ElseIf (e = vbYes) Then
            With Me.RecordsetClone
            .FindFirst "[Sort Criteria]='" & Me.[Sort Criteria] & "'"
            If Not .NoMatch Then
                Me.Bookmark = .Bookmark
            Else
                MsgBox "Record not found"
            End If
            End With
            CurrentDb.Execute "delete * from tbl_PDM_Results WHERE [Result] is NULL"
            Me.frm_PDM_Results_subform.Visible = True
            Me.SubformLabel.Visible = True
            Me.Graph1.Visible = True
            Me.Graph1.SetFocus
            Call LeftClick
            Call LeftClick
            Me.Result.SetFocus
            Call LeftClick
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Thanks
Simple but correct, other issues at play here, focus seems to be switching to item directly under position of yes/no buttons on message box