>>>I have a form where in the Form Designer I set MaxWidth = 1400 and Width = 1400. I have the options in VFP IDE options set to "Max Design Area" = 1600 X 1200.
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>>>However, every time I open the form in the Form Designer, it resets the Width property to 1024.
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>>>How can I force VFP to keep the width at the 1400 value so I do not have to reset it each time I open the form to edit.
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>>Try : Tools >> Options >> and Forms tab, Set "Max.design area" to "(None)".
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>I tried that, as sugested by Tore in the first reply, but it still does not work. Always opens in Form Designer at 1024 wide, even after I set the Width to 1400 and close the form... Open it back up in Form Designer, and it's right back at 1024.

Hi Matt:

If this happens only in one form, did you tryied converting to text (sc2) and back to binary?

As I suggested in FoxProTech list, may be there is some internal corrupted data in your SCX, and sometimes reassembling the binary with FoxBin2Prg fixes it.