That's probably the only way I could of think of doing it. However, I wasn't sure of the syntax or where to put it.

Thanks a lot ...

ray
>>How do you selectively disable menu bars from a form?
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>Raymond,
>
>You generally cannot disable a menu bar from a form without a lot of trouble. What you do instead is make use of the menu's "skip for" attribute and identify the condition that may appear on the form that would cause the menu bar to be disabled.
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>For example, if you want a bar to be disabled if a specific form's control value is false, then the skip for would contain something like
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>"_Screen.ActiveForm.name # 'myformname' .OR. ;
> _Screen.ActiveForm.mycontrol.value # .T."
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>If the menu bar determines that that expression evaluates to .F., it will disabled itself.
>
>regards,