Michelle,

After reading a little more of the thread. You could also bundle the RTF and it's buttons into a container. Then just drop the whole thing onto the forms you want.

There may be an issue of the RTF being an ActiveX that makes it a little different as far as .ActiveControl goes.

>There's a ".ActiveControl"? Well, that makes things much simpler. :)
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>I don't want to be a Voyeur... :) I think it's probably easier to just make the control show the toolbar.