>George,
>
>I used code like this recently and it works ok:
>
> _screen.Top = -20000
> _screen.Left = -20000
> _screen.Visible = .t.
>
> pcTableName = getfile( "dbf" )
>
> _screen.Visible = .f.
> _screen.Top = 0
> _screen.Left = 0
>
>
David,

That doesn't surprise me terribly (I do wish I had thought of it, though). I'm just wondering if all normal dialogs (including Print Preview, GETFILE(), GETDIR(), etc.) won't work properly without _SCREEN.Visible = .T. Perhaps something to do with the fact that they're child windows. I've heard that some of this is fixed in 6.0 (Print Preview).