Cecil-

>I call a form with the event click of a cmdSetTabs command button

Is the second form modal, or modeless? If modeless the code in the command button will continue to execute after the DO FORM.

> it then brings up another form allowing the end user to change the names that I display in the first form for each page of the page form... but on exiting the second form

> I reload the pageframe.page1.caption for each page

How? You set the captions in the command button after the DO FORM? How do you get the new caption values back to the first form?

> and it is not reflecting the change. Tried thisform.activate, thisform.refresh, thisform.pageframe1.page1.refresh none seem to work BUT if I go into the second form again and just do an exit the first form is updated.

Did you SET STEP ON in the release (?) of your second form, and then step through the code that should be changing the page captions?