Harry,
I tried it and it worked perfectly. Didn't even include the "this.refresh" code.

Could you give more details on your form?

Thanks,
Barbara

>dodefault()
>thisform.showtips=not thisform.showtips
>this.refresh
>
>seemed to be a reasonable bit of code to put in the click of a command button which lets the user turn the tooltips on and off.
>
>(in the command button refresh I set the caption depending on the value of showtips)
>
>so why doesn't it work?
>
>Or to be more precise and more confusing, why does it work only Once!
>
>Harry