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I am passing a form to a printing sub using Public Sub PrintForm(ByRef frmFrom as Form). I then call this form to print and all works well except txtBox1 is highlighted in the printed form. When I tried to deselect it using frmFrom.Controls("txtBox1").SelectionStart = frmFrom.Controls("txtBox1").Text.Length I get an error that txtBox1 Represents text as a sequence of UTF-16 code units and SelectionStart is not a member of "Control". I am able to manipulate several other buttons (turning them off to print) but can't seem to unhighlight the Focused textbox. Any ideas would certainly be appreciated.

JimLaydon
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  • Why is the parameter of the `PrintForm` method declared `ByRef`? Are you assigning something to that parameter inside the method? If not, there's no reason to declare it `ByRef`. `ByVal` is the default for a reason. – jmcilhinney Apr 14 '20 at 00:13
  • Just updated: [How to print hidden and visible content of a Container with ScrollBars](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57309095/7444103) – Jimi Apr 14 '20 at 03:26

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Is that TextBox the first selectable control in the Tab order? If so, it will get focus by default when the form is displayed. The Shown event is raised immediately after the form is displayed. That is probably where you should be initiating the printing from and that is also where you can set the form's ActiveControl to Nothing, meaning that no control will have focus, meaning that a TextBox will not show highlighted text even if text is selected.

jmcilhinney
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  • Thank you very much jmcilhinney - that solved my problem – JimLaydon Apr 14 '20 at 23:18
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