Mark --

You are welcome. The reason that it didn't work with "Init" is that you were calling a UDF and that puts any SET commands in the UDF out of scope to the forms datasession (when it is set Private)....at least I think that's the explanation.

>I did that and it looked right, when I put the call in where you said it works. I don't understand why putting it there works but the form init doesn't, but I'll settle for 'just because' and try to remember this for the future.
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>Thanks again.