Hi Christof,

I hadn't thought of that one. Thank you.

>Hi Craig,
>
>>Does anyone know of a way to ascertain in code whether a form is currently in design-mode or is being run inside the VFP IDE?
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>When you have an object reference, you can use SYS(1272) to find out if the reference points to a running object (get back a string) or an object in design mode (raises error). Wrapping this in TYPE() should deal with the error.