Jim , thanks for your reply. What you say makes complete sense and I will give it a try.

Regards,
Gerard


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>You cannot have more than one read events in effect. Any others are ignored after the first one.
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>Your problem is the scoping of the variable holding the form reference. loForm is being created as a private variable and goes out of scope as soon as the method ends. To get the scoping right you need to ask the question of how long is this new form supposed to hang around. One approach might be to create a form property named oReportForm, then use this code in the button's click;
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>WITH Thisform
>   .oReportForm = CreateObject("frmReport")
>   .oReportForm.Show()
>ENDWITH
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>Be sure to put this code in the destroy of the calling form;
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>Thisform.oReportForm = NULL
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>This will put the form object reference into a form property and it will not go out of scope when your button code ends.