Having the form be modal does make a difference. Thank you for clarifying. What you need to do is create a public function in the modal form to do your checking. The function will return a true, indicating records were found, or false. In your calling program you call the function before the ShowDialog. If the function returns true then execute ShowDialog. If it is false then don't. Here is some sample code:

Dim testDialog As New Form1()
If testDialog.MyCheck() Then
testDialog.ShowDialog()
End If
testDialog.Dispose()


>Yes. It executes the line ME.CLOSE() and continues on its way. There's no error or any indication of action. Almost like there is a Close sub that doesn't do anything. I've also tried mybase.close() and same thing. This is a modal form. Does that make any difference?
>Thanks.