Glad it worked.

I always run into it when views are loaded in the Data Environment because I forget to put the SET TALK OFF code in the BeforeOpenTables on each form. It's in the LOAD but the DE comes first.

Barbara

>Wow, thanks Barbara.
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>I had SET TALK OFF in the init of the child form, as soon as I moved it to the load of the child form, the problem was solved.
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>Thankyou very much for your help, I was beginning to think I would never figure out how to fix it.
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>Kind Regards
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>Jeffrey Clarke