I didn't even KNOW there was a windowtype '4'. Is this because the original forms used variables as the controlsource with Scatter/Gather? That was standard in 2.6 since there was no buffering available.

Barbara

>We have done a little more investigation on the controlsource value always being blank.
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>It seems that for forms with windowtype = 3 or 4 the controlsource value is not available at run time. Does anyone know of a way around this besides rewriting the whole form? (202 forms in the project and one full time programmer and a contractor (me) means that the rewrite is not really an option.)
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>Weldon Adair