Steve,

You want SET TALK OFF not ON.

>The SET TALK command is scoped to the datasession. This means that if the form has a private datasession, set talk will default to ON, unless you do something to change that.
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>SET TALK ON can cause items on a form to creep in certain situations (the .left and .top properties don't change in this scenario).
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>I would suggest putting in the form's load method:
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>SET TALK ON
>dodefault()