thanks for the site tamar - a lot of useful material there.
k

>>Without going too far over my head and paygrade - is it possible to create a help bubble that appears when you move your cursor over the message in messagebox().
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>You might consider switching to the Vista/Win 7 pane-style messages. They're designed specifically to let you have a way to provide more information with a click. Even if you have to support XP, you could design your own form that offers that capability.
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>Take a look at the Sedna Vista Dialogs for COM project.
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>Tamar