>Actually, that is where it will not exit the read events. I have an exit button on the form and I have clear events followed by a release thisform, but stepping through the code, when it hits the release thisform after the clear events, it rolls to my form.activate and stays at the read events and loops. Why would the clear events before the form release prevent this from occuring?

Kevin, the CLEAR EVENTS cannot be processed because you are calling it from a still active form, ie. your button click event, and so the form is still in scope. Now you will get unexpected behaviour.

What you need to do is just have the RELEASE THISFORM in the button click in order to exit the form and then in the calling program to the form you can test for exit values and perform the CLEAR EVENTS if necessary.

HTH