Doug,
Why bother to restore the settings when the private datasession is destroyed with the form?

Barbara (lazier even than Patrick)

>Patrick,
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>You can add code to your form class to set the settings in the Load() event, then restore the settings in the Destroy() event.
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>Doug
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>>I need help !!! I'm lazy of setting the 'set talk off',set status off,set exclusive off,,, in all the form that datasection are set to 2 - private datasection ... any faster way ??