>That would be the answer, do it in the base class! However I started this monster app years ago before I thought to have the form sub-classed( although most of my controls are now). Not a major problem, but now I know.
>thanks
I believe you should still go ahead and change all the forms, so that they are based on a single base class. Then, you can do several things for all forms at once.
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