Thanks very much John.
If the commandbutton should control initiation and completion status displays, should it also handle the if messagebox("Continue",33,"Continuing Deletes current record")=1 type decision prompts? Also is there anything else that the command button should handle? I just finished reading Egger's book and I'm trying to clear up such issues. < TIA >

>Hi Terry ---
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>It belongs in the command button. The separate object communicates it's end status to the button which relates the status. If there is a wide range of outcomes, consider a messenger which would communicate the text of the outcome to the button.
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>>If the job of a command button is to initiate code that goes in a custom method of the form or in a method of a separate object, where is the best place to put the conclusion of a process: the message that goes in the status bar indicating completion of the process or error in the process or whatever?
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>>Is it in the command button? In the method code? In its own message object?