alternative commands to end the creation of the form. None appears to prevent the execution of the code in the Init methods.
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>>>I try to avoid using ExitProcess().
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>>>What am I doing wrong?
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>>Well, this may be not the solution you're looking for, but you can set form's property, say, ExitForm to true and return not thisform.ExitForm from Load and Init. If you return false from form's Load or form's Init, it will stop form's instantiation.
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>Hi Naomi,
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>You're still around here and going strong. :)
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>I have thought of that way of handling. However, it would imply that the remainder of the code in the Load() is done anyway, and that's not what I want.

I then can recommend you to look into this website http://ideaxchg.com/ix07/bymda/mdav0012.htm

Mike Asherman studied this topic a lot several years back and released for free nice Error Handler. I suggest you to check information he put in that website, you may find your answer there.