Yuri,

You are correct in that it may be too fast for the human eye. That's why I tried to use a DOEVENTS within the loop but it didn't seem to make a difference. Putting a Thisform.refresh also didn't help. However, the wait window timeout that you suggested does work for me. Thank you.

Mike

>How do you supposed to see that caption is changing? On each loop you need to wait until caption is refreshed showing the new number for the time period enough to be recognized by human eye
>FOR j = 1 TO 100000
> .Caption = TRANSFORM(j)
>* possibly you need to add here
>.refresh
>wait wind time 0.05 ""
>
>ENDFOR