Maybe you can simply refresh the form in your main form 'Activate' method ?
After query form is closed Activate methid flashes in yr main form.
It sort of like getfocus method for a form.

Rgds++
Sergio


>Sorry Terry I havent explained myself very clearly.
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>Basically on my main form I call the search form. Then on the search form I select my search criteria which stores this to a variable. Then when I close the search form back to my main form I want the edit box to show the contents of the variable. It does but I have to click on the edit box for it to show, like a refresh problem I think!