>>I also tried that! no luck... It seems to only work from the form1's valid on the first field. Driving me crazy :{!
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>I think Daniel's right, something is running later...you can try running through debugger to determine what...also, possibly you're doing something that dis-orders the usual firing sequence, I've done that myself :)

I have put the code
IF WEXIST("frmBuchhilfe")
_Screen.frmBuchhilfe.Show()
ENDIF
in the form1 activate but get an error on the _screen line. frmBuchhilfe is the form.name of form3 which is really buchhilf.scx. It recognizes that the form exists but I don't have the correct syntax to show it apparantly.

Unfortunately, this system is huge and I inherited it for a few weeks to solve some bugs, do some updates, etc so tracing things is very time-consuming!

Help again?

Sally