>One more thing. If you want the programmatically expanded key to be selected, use ThisForm.MenuTree.SelectedItem = ThisFormMenuTree.Nodes(NodeKey).
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>One of the reasons, BTW, that I changed your code was to indicate that the NodeKey could be either numberic or character.

Works great now. Thanks
Mike

P.S. Thanks for the extra info. That was what I was going to work on next.