I've tried a few different ON ESCAPE possibilities - nothing, running some routine that displays a MESSAGEBOX, etc.

The only way I've been able to escape out of the SELECT is by doing something I read about on UT, by incorporating some code in the WHERE clause that called a function that incorporated a DOEVENTS, but that slowed the SELECT to a crawl, so that doesn't seem to be an acceptable way to do it.

If I understand, in theory it _is_ possible to escape from a SELECT that is running in a program?

jd