>Edward,
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>I think we discussed this before. It probably is just a matter of taste, but I instantiate what I call my DE (data envrironment) at load time. This alllows me to OO this aspect and make a separation of what is Relational (the clone) and what is linked to the form (the recordsource), which where possible I set at design time.
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>Marc
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Yes, matter of taste. I used to instantiate forms from classes (no DE).