>Larry,
>
>Why not make it a method of your form class and then make all fomrs come from that class? That would be the OOP way of doing it.

That was my first plan... but...

This app was originally written entirely by hand (by me) then moved into a framework (Visual ProMatrix). Consequently, the two forms in question use two different base classes.

I kept the original base class for the first form because it has resizing capabilities which PM's base classes do not. "Some day" I'll make them sizable too, then I can streamline all the classes.

Thanks