>Hi Mark,
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>>By clear the screen, do you mean like *Set talk off* so commands do not echo to the screen? In forms, many *set* commands scope to the DataSession. So if a form has a private DS, you have to issue all the set commands again. Many of us have a form subclass whose Load event does all these set commands for us. In VFP help see *Set DataSession* for all the set commands taht are affected by the private DS.
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>I usually put all my SETs in BeforeOpenTables of the DataEnvironment object because of screen "noise" when initializing with TALK ON.

True. When I use the DE, I put a *set talk off* there if needed. But I seldom need to because about the only thing I can think of causing noise are views. But I usually have NoDataOnLoad set .T. so I do not get those messages. In the Load [or elsewhere], after doing the sets, I'll do requery() when needed.