>Thank You John!!!
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>Resolved the problem. I moved the code to create the menu to the activate method of the top form. No more errors messages and the menu disables with _screen.activeform.windowstate = 1 in the skip for of the menu option for modal forms. I'll know next time not to believe everything I read in the manuals and books. I guess that is what they call experience.
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Gaylen,
The menu creation will be done each time the form is Activated. This takes place whenever you launch a new form and then release it to come back to the main form. If the other form is modal, you can't do this but if you launch a non-modal form and go back to the main form ...

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>I tried 'oMainform = this' in the init of the top level form but it didn't create a form object. I can reference the oMainform object if I create the form with 'do xxxx name oMainform'.
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>Thanks a lot - Hope to see you Wednesday.
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>Gaylen
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