Terry,
Have you tried issuing an Activate

ThisForm.Activate()

Just a thought - I've not tried it.
Caroline

>Sergey,
>No I have not. The 'main' form is a VFP form, not the _VFP or _Screen object. But I will try it - thanks!
>
>
>>Terry,
>>
>>Did you try to issue following command after modal form is closed?

_Screen.Closable = .F.
>>_Screen.Closable = .T.
>>

>>
>>
>>>This project has a menu and the 'BAR' has ALT hot keys. This form opens a modal form that does some excel automation and presents some graphs.
>>>
>>>As expected, when calling a modal form that opens additional objects, the main form's X-Close button goes into a mixed or disabled state. As in every project where I visit this issue - I fooled around looking for a work-around to enable the X-Close button's state.
>>>
>>>I noticed when the modal form was closed, that pressing the ALT key restored the X-Close button's state.
>>>
>>>So in the code, just after the modal form is called, I entered this code:
>>>KEYBOARD '{ALT}' (I also used KEYBOARD '{ALT+F}', but it opened the "File' menu).
>>>
>>>Anyway, KEYBOARD '{ALT}' raised an error. Is there a way to programatically 'press' the ALT key and not force an error. What's the latest on restoring a form's X-Close button state?
>>>
>>>Thanks