>Brenda,

>You have to use your menu's name in the ACTIVATE MENU ... command. I always let my menus replace the system menu so the name is _msysmenu (the foxpro system menu).

>JimB

jim,

sorry to be dense, but i was born this way. i have a toplevelform (not _screen). created a menu with the menu designer. in my toplevelform init i "do mainmenu.mpr". i only have one menu for the entire application. looked in the menu.mpr and i see no way to reference the true menu name without editting the mpr file. should _msysmenu refer to my menu. should "ACTIVATE MENU _msysmneu NOWAIT" work for me (it does not, but should it)?

thanks - brenda