>Brenda,

>VFP refreshes the menu when it ahs time to. Youc an force a refresh by;

>ACTIVATE MENU _msysmenu NOWAIT

>any time you change the value of the skip for variable.

>JimB

jim,

still have menu refresh problems even after trying the ACTIVATE MENU _msysmenu NOWAIT. tried something a little screwy but it worked. obviously not the permanent solution, but it might shed some light. i editted the .mpr to make the menu name (the sys(2015)) public. when i ACTIVATE MENU _2015PUBLICNAME NOWAIT the refresh works perfect. tried to see the underlying value of my _msysmenu in the debugger but it showed -24576. any thoughts?

thanks, brenda