That works great.

Many thanks Naomi

>>Hi
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>>I have several calls to a form from other forms, from within the init method of the called form I am checking a database to see if record exists to prevent me from loading up the form.
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>>What is the best way of preventing the form to fully load once the form has started its init method. I want the called form to decide wether to load and if not I want to display a messagebox then close the form,
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>>I definately want to stop the called form form fully loading form within the called form, not from the calling form,
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>>Any help extremley appreciated.
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>Just return .F. from either Load method or Init method and the form will not instantiate.