Exiting the form when a text item has focus

I am a beginner, beginner using developer/2000.
I made a form with some text items that are linked to the
database.
When one of the text items has focus and I click the push button
that i created to exit the form, I get the message FIELD MUST BE
ENTERED.
I want to exit the form regardless of whether the cursor is
currently in any text items.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks, fred

What you probably want to do as well is set mouse navigate to
FALSE on the text field.
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Forms Product Management

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