>Hi Mike, I tried that and it doesn't make any difference - in the preview pane you can see the window increasing in width and height but when you press ok "lots of nothing happens" , also, when you view the properties they have reset to standard ( weird ? )

I am following this thread with curiosity because I faced the exact same situation at a client that was still running some legacy FoxPro apps. (FPD 2.6 DOS -- ultra legacy ;-) ). I tried about a hundred things and none of them really worked. It seemed like a case of the OS insisting it was smarter than the user....