Thanks so much, Marty! I *was* able to view George's message by playing around with the calendar option, and tried the code referenced there:

set classlib to SDIClass additive
oPreviewFrm=CreateObject("PreviewForm")
release classlib SDIClass
report form "trade activity.frx" environment for record_id='1';
noconsole preview in window (oPreviewFrm.Name)

PLEASE forgive my (obivous) ignorance, but when I tried to build my .EXE using this code, I got the message "unable to find visual class library SDICLASS". Does George's code assume the existence of a class library sdiclass.vcx? If so, how do you create it? (note that I design forms using the form designer; I am not proficient with class libraries, instantiating objects, etc....)

Thanks so much again! <s>