Hi Robert,

> Any ideas as to how to make the proper page display the first time?

Sounds like the focus is still on the first page. One way would be to have some control that receives the focus before the inner pageframe. If that isn't possible, check if the current control is on the first page:

Left(Sys(1272,Thisform.ActiveControl),len(SYS(1272,page1) )) == SYS(1272,page1)

and if so, set the focus to a control on the second page before making the second page active. If the second page of the outer only becomes active when the user clicks on the tab, you can skip the check for the focus and always set the focus to the active page in the Activate event.