Originally Posted by The Dark

A quick google for "vb onclose event" leads me to think you can just put in
that setting e.Cancel to True cancels the close.

Originally Posted by PhilBon

one thing I'd suggest, not that you have to is instead of Me.edit_type.Text = "" I would use Me.edit_type.Text = nothing. To me that just seems better, don't know how others would feel. Either way works fine, I just see "Nothing" neater than ""