>THANKS - thanks so much your help and everybody who has chipped in! At least you have discovered the reason why this is happening which means I can work on a solution - the wait window works OK - I may just stick with that...
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>I find it strange that no one has come across this problem before - maybe the tree view is not used so much... Anyhow - BIG THANKS to you John and all!!!


Very welcome. I've never used it before, in response to your wondering about it. Also, if it was me, I would just use the wait window. It may not be a pretty solution,k but it works!
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