>>Renoir
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>I'm with you, I hate having to make major changes to what I've already written and tested. So here's another idea. I don't know your code, but I imagine you are passing something like This.HelpContextID to your help form. If so, you need three changes.
>1. Change it to pass just "This" (without the quotes, of course).
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>2. Change the Help System parameter to oObj. If oObj.HelpContextID is greater than zero, use it. Your done and everything works as before. If oObj.HelpContextID = 0, then lookup oObj.Name in the table to get your HelpContextID. Once again, everything works the same.
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>3. Add code to the part of the help sytem that allows users to add new help screens so it will generate a valid HelpContextID and store it in the table with oObj.Name.
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>This should work with a minimum amount of Search and Replace.

Doh! I just read your message after doing much of the changes... That'll learn me to have such a good work ethic! Great idea... I just don't think along those lines sometimes; always assume I need to rewrite when I can often just re-reference. Next time though, next time... Renoir