Thanks for yor reply Joe,

That causes it to display in the Taskbar but without the form being modal the procedure continues through to the cleanup code which kills the form.

>modal forms are treated like dialogs and do not show up in the task bar. Running the following code will cause it to show up on the taskbar. You do on the downside lose the modal property.
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Set oConvert = New frmConvert
>>    oConvert.Show 0 'vbModal