>Naomi,
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>You are just too darned picky *bg*
>

Exactly <g> I would prefer to do nothing and let VFPT fix it <g>

>>I'm afraid that setting status bar of all controls is not enough :( I have a form where I set every single control to have a statusbar. Still when I press the upper right close button of the form, I see this Opt. thing.
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>I don't know (and can't check now) if there is any event you can bind to and either tweak the SET NOTIFY on/off as necessary to get rid of the message.

I don't want to see Alias name either, so playing with SET NOTIFY may not help. I guess we would need SET MESSAGE TO "Closing..." in the form's release method or something of this sort...