Naomi,
Thanks for thinking about this and for your suggestions. This is a real puzzler. I suspect I'll dink around with it for quite a while and figure out some sort of kludge that makes it more reliable and never really know the real cause.

Gary

>>Naomi,
>>Putting a call to thisform.cls() didn't do anything. The form remains oblivious to my efforts.
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>>Gary
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>Sorry, no more ideas to try :( May be Christof can come up with something.