>>On second thought, if you have code in a form that needs to be
>>run when the form is not open, then maybe the code doesn't belong
>>in that form anyway. You would be better off writing a procedure
>>or an application method, and calling that method from the button
>>and wherever else ou want to run it from.
>
>Yup, that's what I was going to say too. You mean application _object_
>method, right?

Yup.