>Thanks Ed,
>
>Without having to rewrite this whole mess, would it help if I closed the precieding forms and jumped to the new form, and when
>finished closed and jumped back to the prior form ?

It depends. If your forms are modal - your user can only return to the previous form(s) after exiting from the new form, yes, you'd normally return to the previous form when this form finishes. If you want your application to be modeless - many Windows may be open at any time, and the user may freely switch among running WIndows, or even start another Window, then no, but managing a modeless, event driven program generallydoesn'talways start some other Window just because the current one is done. If only one form should be running at any point in time, then offering a menu or main screen, and starting the form that the user needs, exiting from it and coming back to the menu or main screen when it finishes will make this happen. If each time you finish one screen, you start another without ever unloading the previous form, the app will fail since there's a historical list of DO FORM calls which sits 'above' the current form still waiting to get released.

Yes, definitely return to the previous form or main menu when the form finishes.