Hi Naomi,

>I was thinking about setting BoundControls property to .F. in the form's property and then to .T. in Activate. Does it make sense to you?

That depends on the form... Any changes made to the control values before the Activate event would be lost. If the passed value can be different from the saved value, BindControls would prevent using the new value. Additionally, some controls behave differently when they are bound later.