>>Well, he claimed that it showed up in VB with a lock symbol. But you are obviously getting different results in VB.
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>I haven't seen VB do it that way. Do you know happen to know what thread it was, I didn't see it under Mike's message summary? Or did it get lost yesterday?
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He posted it to you yesterday afternoon, so the message is lost.

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>>The way you want it to behave makes sense to me...hidden should mean hidden, right?
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>That's what you would think. Sure would make objects PEMS cleaner in IS. :)
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>Thanks for the help.

Sorry I couldn't provide a good answer :(