>Larry,
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>Have you thought of using a toolbar with a label (or actually couple of them) and docking it at the bottom. Now you simply have to control the captions of these labels. Just a thought... < s >
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>>I was considering a 'top level form' with my own status bar class, but I need more info before tackling that option
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>>Thanks

No, but you've described exactly the behavior I need... I'll check that out...

Thanks