>hmmmm, I didn't know you were using a modal form. And guess what, I did the same thing with one of my modal forms, and it displayed the same behaviors that you have been having. And when I stepped through the code, it totally removed my toolbar... not sure why. When I get home tonight I'll look at it again..
>later

Daniel,

Thanks a lot for helping me. I solved the problem by adding custom code in form's Activate after dodefault to always enable cmdClose and conditionally disable cmdNew....