Bambi, are you sure there are no trademark issues? ;) It's funny, we do have more than just the titlebar that says "TRAINING". It is faily obvious, it's just a few recently aren't used to the system at all, and thus aren't use to how things are supposed to look, much less when they are in trainig mode. The problem is though, we use touch screens and there isn't alot of room on the screen for information that doesn't pertain to what they are doing. But they're paying so we'll make a change.

>John:

>Thank you. That's what I thought. We already have "TRAINING" in the titlebar and on another spot on the screen but some of the "brain surgeons" that I have using the system don't always pay attention. So we're trying to make it more obvious. May even go as far as to put a transparent image over the entire screen that they can touch through as they use touch screens.

Why are you are crtisizing your users? The addition of "TRAINING" in the form's caption is not an obvious visual clue as most people never read it. We use various Bambi images
- on the logon screen
- as the form icon
- on the Save and Delete buttons
when in training mode. Its obvious, gets a laugh, and seems to reduce the users fear of screwing up.

Your transparent image is a very interesting idea.

Daniel