>4. Create all 7 forms, each with show window/hide window code in them.

How? DO FORM? CreateObject()?

>5. The show/hide window language does not work because all my forms seem to have the same name (looking in the "Window" menu, although I specified different things in the Name property of each form.

You're confusing the *instance* name with the name you see in the property sheet.

You can DO FORM MYFORM NAME FRED, and then you'd show/hide the window with FRED.SHOW and FRED.HIDE regardless of what value is stored in the name property of the form.

You never really talk to the form itself -- it sits like a lump in the SCX on disk. You talk to the *instance*, which is entirely different and can have any name you give it.

Dan