the WindowState worked perfectly.
I just changed the windowstate of the _SCREEN
and set it back afterwords

Thanks

>try this little trick
>
>

>Local oPreviewForm as Form
>
>oPreviewForm = CREATEOBJ("Form")
>oPreviewForm.Name = [PreviewWindow]
>oPreviewForm.WindowState = 2  &&Maximized
>oPreviewForm.Visible = .T.
>
>REPORT FORM YourReportFile.Frx to print preview window PreviewWindow
>
>oPreviewForm.Release
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>

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>hope this helps