This MUST be simple.

I have a modal form that asks for entry of one field and has an OK button.

For the only field on the form I have a got-focus sub to load the field with
a default value.

The OK button has a sub to move the contents of the field to an external
public variable and then  docmd.close.

What happens is that when the form is opened with

DoCmd.OpenForm "<name of the form>", acNormal

the calling procedure continues to the succeeding statement without waiting
for the form's OK to be hit. The form remains visible.

Hints????

Dick