>>>>>I was attempting the former, can you point out where to change this in the Form Designer and change widths
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>>>>Adjust column width in Form Designer: position cursor on two column border, hold mouse and change column width moving the mouse.
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>>>I accidently discovered this later.
>>>If I may, what is the rule for invoking forms within forms. More specificly when a form I created for the purpose of making a year choice and hitting ok is executed, the form shows up but control does not come to it but rather the next line in the program does.The rest of the app is still working correctly however.
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>>Make this form modal.
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>How do you grab the value of a variable from a form and pass it back to a prior form or even one prior to that?

1. You call modal form by
DO FORM ... TO retvalue
2. In modal form unload event you
RETURN retvalue
It's also a good idea to creat and use coustom property Form.Retvalue to handle this case.