Hi,
I tried getting rid of controls, pages, even the whole pageframe to no avail. I finally did come up with a kludge that worked so I declared victory and ran away!

Gary

>Gary,
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>Have you tried copying the form to a new name, and then eliminate controls one at a time, or start a new form and copy controls onto it one at a time and see when it begins working (or breaks) to see if it's one control causing the issue?
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>>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.