Hi Marcia

Thanks for your response.

>If the optiong group class has a button count > 0, this is exactly what I would expect to happen.

Yes I have a button count > 0

>If you want to be able to rename the option buttons in the instance, set the ButtonCount property to 0 in the option group class and set it to the number of buttons you need in the instance. Then you can rename them to whatever you want.

Won't the controls go away as soon as I make the count 0 ?

>BTW, the same is true for pageframes.

Thanks I will keep it in mind.