>Walter,
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>Thanks for the help. Since posting my question, I have hacked at the problem(stripping off components one by one, using the NOSHOW clause) several times and came to the same conclusion you ultimately did: the culprit is an ActiveX Control that is forcing the form to be visible immediately.
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>Setting thisform.Left to an offscreen position works, but is very annoying to deal with during development/maintenance. I had already concluded that addobject() was probably the solution. You have pretty much confirmed what I was thinking.
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>Thanks again for the help.
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>Joe

Joe,
Just a couple of thoughts:

What happends if you set the ActiveX Control to Enabled=.F. or maybe Visible=.F.

Could you not just add the ActiveX Control at run time?