Brenda,

The invisible form will have to have a control on it that can get focus. Note if this is something like a textbox all the user input keystrokes will wind up in there so you ought to NODEFAULT in the control.KeyPress event.

>Made form invisible1 not visible, by setting the left and top properties to minus numbers. That works well - but (there is always a but), when "invisible1.show()", the form current1 is still active. Can forms with negative top and left be active? The whole point was to make form current1 not the active form before routine1. But after invisible1.show(), current1 is still active.