>I have a form which runs a long process so I wanted to show the progress in maybe a listbox on a second form. I can get the second form to display but then it returns to the calling form and disappears (but is still running).
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>What am I missing, it's got to be simple !

Chris,

You didn't provide any info to go on. Maybe Form, which is convenient for showing messages File #9684 will help you.