Thanks Rick, that did the trick.
Tim

>You can't set anything that is set in the property sheet in the constructor. The constructor will be overridden by anything in InitalizeComponent(). If you move that code after the InitializeComponent() it should work.
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>Ideally you shouldn't do anything dynamic in the constructor at all - use Form_Load for those sort of things as it ensures that the form has properly initialized and all values have been set.
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>+++ Rick ---
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