I suppose because I'm stubborn :) Actually, I hadn't thought of that. In my fiddling I stumbled across a different solution. It seems a UserControl inherits from UserControl and a custom control inherits from Control. A UserControl will recieve focus when clicked, but a Custom control won't. I'm assuming Usercontrol inherits a class that handles the focusing, which is why that type of control will always focus. I tried researching what the differences could be but came up empty handed. So now I know in a situation like mine just inherit from control if I don't want it to get focus. I've discovered another mystery in my pointless pursuit of information. How come the TabStop property doesn't exist for labels? TabStop is a property in the Control class and a Label is a control. How could it not be there? Oh, well. Unless somebody knows, I give up. I've figured out what I needed to know. Thanks for your reply.
