It should unless something else intersepts ESC key and releases the form. Fire Debugger to see if Kepress of the form is even called.

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>I pasted your following codes on keypress event of form
>

>DO CASE
>CASE nKeyCode = 27 AND thisform.pageframe1.visible
>  thisform.pageframe1.visible = .F.
>CASE nKeyCode = 27 AND NOT thisform.pageframe1.visible
>  Thisform.Release()
>ENDCASE
>

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>But in the both cases it release the FORM1. First case still does not work.
>Please help again