>>YEah, move the command out of Activate or actually duplicate that command in another method. Activate is one of the last methods to fire. It occurs after the INIT of all objects on the form, after the Form INIT(), after the SHOW(), etc.
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>I don't know what you mean by moving the commandout of Activate. My command actions are in the toolbar of each command Click(). The only thing I have in the Activate() is the enabling of those commands.

All I was saying is Activate() runs basically last when loading forms. So if you need to speed things up you need to duplicate those commands earlier in the loading process (food chain? (s))

HTH,
Tom