>Cetin ive either found a bug or something with my machine. Having done what you said and investigated the problem I now have it working with settings that you said. The reason for this is because the thisform.autocenter property was set to T in the load event of the search form.
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>Therefore my main form is modeless and As Top Level
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>The search form which is invoked from the main form is In Top Level and Modal.
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>If I set the autocenter property to .f. on the search forms load event even if it is by default it works fine. If I set it to T the form wont display anywhere on screen. I have tested and tested, created new forms and I get the same problem.
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>Im starting to wonder whether this is a bug and I may need a patch or something. Has anybody else expereinced something like this before?

Neil,
You've VFP8 SP1, right? It works for me right in VFP5,6 SP5,7 SP1,8 SP1,9.
Cetin