John, thanks for taking the time to figure this out! And I certainly have no problem with the idea of the find dialog initially popping up -- it's a good one.

I owe you one. :D

-- Chris


>The problem stems from the cmdFind.SetFocus() in the Form.Init. Once I
>removed that, the Find button remained normal. However, I realize that
>you want the default button to be Find....so...I substituted a
>cmdFind.Click() and the Find form pops up on entry.....once you cancel
>or OK out of that form, the data entry form operates
>normally......so....your two options are to discard the SetFocus or
>replace it with a click()....which is not a bad thing: Most of my data
>entry forms fire a find dialog when you first go in.