I did something similar and found that a lot of the event  handlers were just
being ignored as well.

It's been very frustrating.

And... I'm using a multipage control as well which seems to complicate
things a bit 'cause I can't seem to get to the tabstop property of a
page.... I was still going down the tabstop route.

I'd set up a seperate userform  for testing with all the default name and so
on. The tabstop thing worked ok there but when I transfered it to the "real"
form using the multipage it broke.

Soooo....

I copied and set up your code  with the flag... But... When I run it the
focus shifts to the multipage control the textbox  is on