>>My point is that you may need to set visible before setting width and other properties. Anyway, I'm not familiar with this particular syntax. What is your goal for this program?
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>Well I set the names of the columns to more meaningful names than the exported table. I put the .Visible at the end so that the shifting and resizing of columns and text, etc. doesn't flash (like setting .LockScreen on and off). Now I've put the visible back near the top, it looks bad as everything resizes but I don't get the same OLS dispatch error.
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>However, now I get different dispatch errors as I come out of the s/s. I wish I could just do some dev. instead of firefighting all day!
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>Are you sure that putting .visible up front is necessary? It worked fine for me on my m/c till today.

No, I'm not sure about all these errors. I think Borislav's response should help you.

Since you're using VFP7 you would have to resort to ON ERROR approach...