>Thanks Mike. This seems like a nice piece of coding. I will look into incorporating it into my coding.
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>In the meantime, making sure that SET TALK is ON solved the problem.
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>Thanks again.
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It's not enough to just SET TALK ON. You also have to remember to reset SET TALK to the previous value. The code I showed remembers the original values of several things, makes a hidden window to hide the textual output, allowing just the progress bar to show. You then run your query and can reset/undo all the stuff, just by releasing the object.