Try: ThisForm.OleControl1.OBJECT.Expand(i) = .t. The documentation on the Outline control isn't the best. Also, I was playing with it today and found that if I executed this from the Command Window it worked fine, but if I executed it in a program, the line would expand, but the EXPAND method code wouldn't fire. I don't know if I'm missing something. I made it work, however, by doing: ThisForm.OleControl1.OBJECT.Expand(i) = .t. ThisForm.OleControl1.Expand(i) The second line took care of firing the method code. Strange! Best of luck! Rick