>I may be asking the impossible, but is there any way to keep the status bar on top when a child form is opened in a top-level, as is normal windows behavior? As it is, the child window, if large or moved, obscures the status bar.

About the only way around this that I can think of would be to place the status bar on its own form (with no title bar, etc.) with .AlwaysOnTop = .T. This, of course, would lead to other problems, such as keeping its locations synched with the actual form in use.