>Opening a view with no data takes such a short time that I don't think it would make much difference unless you're opening 50 of them, Jill.

Thanks Barbara.

> You're better off making sure that controls you don't see at startup (like pages 2-n of a pageframe) aren't loaded until they're needed.

I'm already doing that.

>If you need an index on a view, index it while it's still empty (with the no data on load). Then when you requery the indexes are automatically updated.

I also do that...a few of my forms are still "pretty slow" to start up (4 grids, 9 textboxes, 2 combos, 1 edit box, 1 check box and 12 command buttons - no partridges or peartrees).

The client is running on an NT network w/all the data on the server. 133MHz workstations.

Thanks for your input. j