>K thanks - I have discovered something - just before the zoom window - I have put a wait window just to make sure it's getting called... now when I relaunch the form the wait window comes - I click on it and the form pops up just fine!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? ANYONE PLEASE!!!!!!

Chris;

Try wait window nowait if you want to use a wait window and continue running your code.

Tom